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]

I. Sethmann, “Materials science. Creating flexible calcite fibers with proteins,” Science, vol. 339, no. 6125, pp. 1281–1282, Mar. 2013.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. P. Petersen and P. W. Reddien, “Polarized notum activation at wounds inhibits Wnt function to promote planarian head regeneration,” Science, vol. 332, no. 6031, pp. 852–855, May 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E. Joliveau, J. Smith, and J. Wolfe, “Acoustics: tuning of vocal tract resonance by sopranos,” Nature, vol. 427, no. 6970, p. 116, Jan. 2004.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Yoshida et al., “Microtubule-severing activity of Shigella is pivotal for intercellular spreading,” Science, vol. 314, no. 5801, pp. 985–989, Nov. 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Hines, Marketing implant dentistry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

G. E. Cold and N. Juul, Eds., Monitoring of Cerebral and Spinal Haemodynamics During Neurosurgery. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Bhattacharjee et al., “Dioscorea,” in Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Industrial Crops, C. Kole, Ed., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011, pp. 71–96.

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, “Scientists sequence DNA of 400,000 year old ancient human,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-sequence-dna-400000-year-old-ancient-human/

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, “Public Education: Title I Services Provided to Students With Limited English Proficiency,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, HEHS-00-25, Dec. 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. O’Connell, “Escaping intersections,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 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]

M. Corkery, “Toys ‘R’ Us Is Said To Weigh Bankruptcy,” New York Times, p. B2, Sep. 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], [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