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]

J. D. Franson, “Physics. Beating classical computing without a quantum computer,” Science, vol. 339, no. 6121, pp. 767–768, Feb. 2013.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Kirz and J. Miao, “David Sayre (1924-2012),” Nature, vol. 484, no. 7392, p. 38, Apr. 2012.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Chen, J. W. McCauley, and K. J. Hemker, “Shock-induced localized amorphization in boron carbide,” Science, vol. 299, no. 5612, pp. 1563–1566, Mar. 2003.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K. Martinowich et al., “DNA methylation-related chromatin remodeling in activity-dependent BDNF gene regulation,” Science, vol. 302, no. 5646, pp. 890–893, Oct. 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Bonneau, A. Fatu, and D. Souchet, Hydrodynamic Bearings. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.

An edited book

[1]

E. Lazega and T. A. B. Snijders, Eds., Multilevel Network Analysis for the Social Sciences: Theory, Methods and Applications, vol. 12. in Methodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences, vol. 12. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. Håkanson and A. C. Bryhn, “Nutrients and Representativity of Data,” in Tools and Criteria for Sustainable Coastal Ecosystem Management: Examples from the Baltic Sea and Other Aquatic Systems, A. C. Bryhn, Ed., in Environmental Science and Engineering Subseries: Environmental Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008, pp. 59–123.

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]

E. Andrew, “New Horizons Brings Pluto’s Mysterious Moons Into Sharper Focus,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-horizons-brings-pluto-s-mysterious-moons-sharper-focus/

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 Weather: FAA and the National Weather Service Are Considering Plans to Consolidate Weather Service Offices, but Face Significant Challenges,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-09-761, Sep. 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. Krutsinger, “Evaluation of Grassland Restoration Success in Illinois Using Indicators of Ecosystem Function,” Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, 2014.

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]

S. Dominus, “They Were With Her From the Very Start,” New York Times, p. ST1, Dec. 24, 2016.

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