How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

J. B. Silk, “Animal behaviour: The evolutionary roots of lethal conflict,” Nature, vol. 513, no. 7518, pp. 321–322, Sep. 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Y. Liu and L. K. Ang, “Motion-induced radiation from electrons moving in Maxwell’s fish-eye,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 3065, Oct. 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

K. G. Stassun, R. D. Mathieu, and J. A. Valenti, “Discovery of two young brown dwarfs in an eclipsing binary system,” Nature, vol. 440, no. 7082, pp. 311–314, Mar. 2006.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. D. Seidler, A. Purushotham, S.-G. Kim, K. Uğurbil, D. Willingham, and J. Ashe, “Cerebellum activation associated with performance change but not motor learning,” Science, vol. 296, no. 5575, pp. 2043–2046, Jun. 2002.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

A. K. Hartmann and M. Weigt, Phase Transitions in Combinatorial Optimization Problems. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

F. V. Fomin, Ed., Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science: 32nd International Workshop, WG 2006, Bergen, Norway, June 22-24, 2006 Revised Papers, vol. 4271. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4271. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. S. Mishra, P. S. De, and N. Kumar, “Friction Stir Welding Configurations and Tool Selection,” in Friction Stir Welding and Processing: Science and Engineering, P. S. De and N. Kumar, Eds., Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014, pp. 95–108.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Ancient Rhino Cousin Reorganizes Mammalian Family Tree,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-rhino-cousin-reorganizes-mammalian-family-tree/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office, “Aviation Security: Systematic Planning Needed to Optimize the Deployment of Checked Baggage Screening Systems,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-05-365, Mar. 2005.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Kutash, “The Relationship Between Nurses’ Emotional Intelligence and Patient Outcomes,” Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 2015.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

N. Perlroth, M. Wines, and M. Rosenberg, “Little Effort to Investigate in States Targeted by Election Hacking,” New York Times, p. A1, Sep. 01, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1], [2].
This sentence cites four references [1], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal title	IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Ind. Appl.
ISSN (print)	0093-9994
Scope	Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering