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. Tommassen, “Biochemistry. Getting into and through the outer membrane,” Science, vol. 317, no. 5840, pp. 903–904, Aug. 2007.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

F. Krüger and M. Ohrnberger, “Tracking the rupture of the Mw = 9.3 Sumatra earthquake over 1,150 km at teleseismic distance,” Nature, vol. 435, no. 7044, pp. 937–939, Jun. 2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. Passarelli, E. Rivalta, and A. Shuler, “Dike intrusions during rifting episodes obey scaling relationships similar to earthquakes,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 3886, Jan. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B. W. Brook, J. J. O’Grady, A. P. Chapman, M. A. Burgman, H. R. Akçakaya, and R. Frankham, “Predictive accuracy of population viability analysis in conservation biology,” Nature, vol. 404, no. 6776, pp. 385–387, Mar. 2000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Y. Shi, M. Liu, and F. Fang, Combined Cooling, Heating, and Power Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

M. Nevins and P. E. Trapa, Eds., Representations of Reductive Groups: In Honor of the 60th Birthday of David A. Vogan, Jr, vol. 312. in Progress in Mathematics, vol. 312. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Bornstein, R. Styrbicki-Imamura, J. E. González, and B. Lebassi, “Interactions of Global-Warming and Urban Heat Islands in Different Climate-Zones,” in National Security and Human Health Implications of Climate Change, H. J. S. Fernando, Z. Klaić, and J. L. McCulley, Eds., in NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. , Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2012, pp. 49–60.

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]

S. Luntz, “For A Predator-Free Life, Avoid The Tropics,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/for-a-predator-free-life-avoid-the-tropics/

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, “ADP Acquisitions: OCC’s Procurement of Laser Printers is Proper but ADP Statutes Apply,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, IMTEC-87-17, Apr. 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. A. Vento, “The Effects of Progressive Muscle Relaxation on the Subjective Well-Being of Collegiate Athletes,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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]

B. Brantley, “What Would a Modern Sophocles Do? Perhaps He Would Pucker Up,” New York Times, p. C5, Oct. 28, 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]–[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