How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 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]

M. B. Graeber, “Changing face of microglia,” Science, vol. 330, no. 6005, pp. 783–788, Nov. 2010.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Tagle and P. Claeys, “Comet or asteroid shower in the late Eocene?,” Science, vol. 305, no. 5683, p. 492, Jul. 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. C. Finlay, G. E. Small, and R. W. Sterner, “Human influences on nitrogen removal in lakes,” Science, vol. 342, no. 6155, pp. 247–250, Oct. 2013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Sun et al., “Plasminogen is a critical host pathogenicity factor for group A streptococcal infection,” Science, vol. 305, no. 5688, pp. 1283–1286, Aug. 2004.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Shreves, Joomla!® Bible. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2009.

An edited book

[1]

C. Felser and G. H. Fecher, Eds., Spintronics: From Materials to Devices. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Spaeth and P. Hausberg, “Can Open Source Hardware Disrupt Manufacturing Industries? The Role of Platforms and Trust in the Rise of 3D Printing,” in The Decentralized and Networked Future of Value Creation: 3D Printing and its Implications for Society, Industry, and Sustainable Development, J.-P. Ferdinand, U. Petschow, and S. Dickel, Eds., in Progress in IS. , Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 59–73.

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 Instrumentation and Measurement.

Blog post

[1]

B. Taub, “Enough Is Enough - It’s Time For An Evidence-Based Approach To Drug Policy,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/enough-is-enough-its-time-for-an-evidencebased-approach-to-drug-policy/

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, “Medical Education: Curriculum and Financing Strategies Need to Encourage Primary Care Training,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, HEHS-95-9, Oct. 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Schaff, “What characterizes and impacts student transformational learning in a community college work placement context,” Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 2013.

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]

G. Vecsey, “Pujols Won’t Find Unconditional Love Anywhere Else,” New York Times, p. B17, Oct. 27, 2011.

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 Instrumentation and Measurement
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas.
ISSN (print)	0018-9456
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Instrumentation