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

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

R. Stone, “EASTERN EUROPE: Help Needed to Rebuild Science in Yugoslavia,” Science, vol. 290, no. 5492, pp. 690–695, Oct. 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. A. McEvoy and N. Correll, “Materials science. Materials that couple sensing, actuation, computation, and communication,” Science, vol. 347, no. 6228, p. 1261689, Mar. 2015.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. P. Purdy, R. W. Peterson, and C. A. Regal, “Observation of radiation pressure shot noise on a macroscopic object,” Science, vol. 339, no. 6121, pp. 801–804, Feb. 2013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

N. Mangold, C. Quantin, V. Ansan, C. Delacourt, and P. Allemand, “Evidence for precipitation on Mars from dendritic valleys in the Valles Marineris area,” Science, vol. 305, no. 5680, pp. 78–81, Jul. 2004.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. Bachmann and A. Steinle, Precast Concrete Structures. Berlin, Germany: Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

C. Gentile, Geolocation Techniques: Principles and Applications. New York, NY: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Z. Molnár, G. López-Bendito, D. Blakey, A. Thompson, and S. Higashi, “The Earliest Thalamocortical Interactions,” in Development and Plasticity in Sensory Thalamus and Cortex, R. Erzurumlu, W. Guido, and Z. Molnár, Eds., Boston, MA: Springer US, 2006, pp. 54–78.

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 Systems.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “How We Discovered The Dark Side Of Wearable Fitness Trackers,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-we-discovered-dark-side-wearable-fitness-trackers/

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, “Auto Safety: NHTSA Has Options to Improve the Safety Defect Recall Process,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-11-603, Jun. 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. H. Freund, “The Relationship of Academic Courses to Skills Required Of Automobile Repair Technicians,” Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO, 2013.

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. Greenhouse, “Every Justice Creates a New Court,” New York Times, p. A27, May 27, 2009.

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 Power Systems
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Power Syst.
ISSN (print)	0885-8950
Scope	Energy Engineering and Power Technology Electrical and Electronic Engineering