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]

D. Baulcombe, “RNA silencing in plants,” Nature, vol. 431, no. 7006, pp. 356–363, Sep. 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. G. Roberts and B. W. Brook, “Paleontology. And then there were none?,” Science, vol. 327, no. 5964, pp. 420–422, Jan. 2010.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P. McLeod, N. Reed, and Z. Dienes, “Psychophysics: how fielders arrive in time to catch the ball,” Nature, vol. 426, no. 6964, pp. 244–245, Nov. 2003.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. Zhu, W. Hu, H. Wu, and X. Hu, “No evident dose-response relationship between cellular ROS level and its cytotoxicity--a paradoxical issue in ROS-based cancer therapy,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 5029, May 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Salleh, A. Y. Zomaya, S. Olariu, and B. Sanugi, Numerical Simulations and Case Studies Using Visual C++.Net. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.

An edited book

[1]

S. Kapur, A. Mermut, and G. Stoops, Eds., New Trends in Soil Micromorphology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Gaestel, “Molecular Chaperones in Signal Transduction,” in Molecular Chaperones in Health and Disease, K. Starke and M. Gaestel, Eds., in Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2006, pp. 93–109.

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]

S. Luntz, “Rare Lemurs Who See Colors Save Their Whole Troop,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rare-lemurs-who-see-colors-save-their-whole-troop/

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, “Department of Homeland Security: Actions Needed to Strengthen Management of Research and Development,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-14-865T, Sep. 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T. Komatsuzaki, “Borrowing constraints and the business cycle in emerging markets,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 2012.

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]

M. Tackett, “Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Victims Could Find Political Clout in Florida,” New York Times, p. A13, Oct. 06, 2017.

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