How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics citation style

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

G. Christeson, “Journal club. A geophysicist ponders the mysteries of intraplate earthquakes,” Nature, vol. 459, no. 7248, p. 755, Jun. 2009.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. A. P. Koppers and H. Staudigel, “Asynchronous bends in Pacific seamount trails: a case for extensional volcanism?,” Science, vol. 307, no. 5711, pp. 904–907, Feb. 2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

F. Donato, S. B. Rompani, and P. Caroni, “Parvalbumin-expressing basket-cell network plasticity induced by experience regulates adult learning,” Nature, vol. 504, no. 7479, pp. 272–276, Dec. 2013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

V. E. Volchkov et al., “Recovery of infectious Ebola virus from complementary DNA: RNA editing of the GP gene and viral cytotoxicity,” Science, vol. 291, no. 5510, pp. 1965–1969, Mar. 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. Pozzilli, A. Lenzi, B. L. Clarke, and W. F. Young Jr, Imaging in Endocrinology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

A. Panosso Netto and L. G. G. Trigo, Eds., Tourism in Latin America: Cases of Success. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Tomalty and A. Mallach, “Differences in Urban Form and Transportation Systems,” in America’s Urban Future: Lessons from North of the Border, A. Mallach, Ed., Washington, DC: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, 2015, pp. 71–98.

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 Power Electronics.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Our Mostly Dry Planetary Neighbors Once Had Lots of Water—What Does That Imply For Us?,” IFLScience, Jun. 29, 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/our-mostly-dry-planetary-neighbors-once-had-lots-water-what-does-imply-us/ (accessed Oct. 30, 2018).

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, “Airport Financing: Annual Funding As Much As $3 Billion Less Than Planned Development,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, T-RCED-99-84, Feb. 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. E. Roberts, “Process evaluation of the Instant Word Notebook,” Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO, 2010.

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]

J. Herrman and S. Maheshwari, “How the Pro-Trump Media Covered Election Day,” New York Times, p. P14, Nov. 08, 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 Power Electronics
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Power Electron.
ISSN (print)	0885-8993
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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