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]

G. A. Chapman, “Astronomy. Aspects of our Sun,” Science, vol. 322, no. 5901, pp. 535–536, Oct. 2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K. Zhang and R. J. Kaufman, “From endoplasmic-reticulum stress to the inflammatory response,” Nature, vol. 454, no. 7203, pp. 455–462, Jul. 2008.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

K. Skourti-Stathaki, K. Kamieniarz-Gdula, and N. J. Proudfoot, “R-loops induce repressive chromatin marks over mammalian gene terminators,” Nature, vol. 516, no. 7531, pp. 436–439, Dec. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. E. Bond et al., “An energetic stellar outburst accompanied by circumstellar light echoes,” Nature, vol. 422, no. 6930, pp. 405–408, Mar. 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Q.-C. Zhong and T. Hornik, Control of Power Inverters in Renewable Energy and Smart Grid Integration. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2012.

An edited book

[1]

C. White, Ed., The Materiality of Individuality: Archaeological Studies of Individual Lives. New York, NY: Springer US, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. González-Vélez, “On the Abstraction of Message-Passing Communications Using Algorithmic Skeletons,” in Advanced Distributed Systems: 5th International School and Symposium, ISSADS 2005, Guadalajara, Mexico, January 24-28, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, F. F. Ramos, V. Larios Rosillo, and H. Unger, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2005, pp. 43–50.

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]

E. Andrew, “Biopolymer ‘wrapping paper’ heals broken bones more quickly and completely,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/biopolymer-“wrapping-paper”-heals-broken-bones-more-quickly-and-completely/

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, “Highway Safety: Reliability and Validity of DOT Crash Tests,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, PEMD-95-5, May 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L. J. Jones, “From Corbin and Hillman to Dionysos: The Partial Unveiling of Psyche’s Stage,” Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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]

L. Saslow, “Jets Overhead, Noise Complaints Below,” New York Times, p. LI2, Aug. 26, 2006.

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