How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. 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	Download the output style file
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]

E. Stokstad, “PALEONTOLOGY: Fossils Made to Order, Any Size,” Science, vol. 288, no. 5472, p. 1729, Jun. 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Etienne-Manneville and A. Hall, “Cdc42 regulates GSK-3beta and adenomatous polyposis coli to control cell polarity,” Nature, vol. 421, no. 6924, pp. 753–756, Feb. 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. D. Harvey, P. Coen, and D. W. Tank, “Choice-specific sequences in parietal cortex during a virtual-navigation decision task,” Nature, vol. 484, no. 7392, pp. 62–68, Mar. 2012.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Preis, H. S. Moat, S. R. Bishop, P. Treleaven, and H. E. Stanley, “Quantifying the digital traces of Hurricane Sandy on Flickr,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 3141, Nov. 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Camarillo and M. A. García-Martín, The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

W. Brack, Ed., Effect-Directed Analysis of Complex Environmental Contamination, vol. 15. in The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol. 15. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. A. Meharg and F.-J. Zhao, “Sources and Losses of Arsenic to Paddy Fields,” in Arsenic & Rice, F.-J. Zhao, Ed., Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2012, pp. 51–69.

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 Plasma Science.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, “Baby Fish Raised In Plastic-Filled Ocean Don’t Fear Predators,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/baby-fish-raised-plastic-filled-ocean-dont-fear-predators/

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, “Close Air Support: Status of the Air Force’s Efforts to Replace the A-10 Aircraft,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, NSIAD-88-211, Sep. 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. K. McCain, “Influence of market setting and time of purchase on counts of aerobic bacteria, Escherichia coli, and coliform and prevalence of Salmonella and Listeria in beef, pork, and chicken in Vietnam,” Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 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]

S. Kishkovsky, “Russia Sentences Estonian to 15 Years in Spy Case,” New York Times, p. A10, Aug. 20, 2015.

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 Plasma Science
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. IEEE Nucl. Plasma Sci. Soc.
ISSN (print)	0093-3813
Scope	Condensed Matter Physics Nuclear and High Energy Physics