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

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

H. Hoag, “Southern light,” Nature, vol. 447, no. 7146, p. 882, Jun. 2007.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. J. Oppenheimer and M. Richards, “Polynesian origins. Slow boat to Melanesia?,” Nature, vol. 410, no. 6825, pp. 166–167, Mar. 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. A. Dalton, C. H. Langmuir, and A. Gale, “Geophysical and geochemical evidence for deep temperature variations beneath mid-ocean ridges,” Science, vol. 344, no. 6179, pp. 80–83, Apr. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. R. Petta et al., “Coherent manipulation of coupled electron spins in semiconductor quantum dots,” Science, vol. 309, no. 5744, pp. 2180–2184, Sep. 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Y. Pan, J. Wang, and M. Li, Algorithmic and Artificial Intelligence Methods for Protein Bioinformatics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

An edited book

[1]

K. Sakamoto, Pro Multithreading and Memory Management for iOS and OS X. Berkeley, CA: Apress, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B. Fairbairn, “Strongly Real Beauville Groups,” in Beauville Surfaces and Groups, I. Bauer, S. Garion, and A. Vdovina, Eds., in Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. , Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015, pp. 41–61.

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 Robotics.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “These Strange Goo Balls Keep Washing Up On U.S. Beaches,” IFLScience.

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, “FAA Budget: 1991 Funding Request for Computers and Communications Can Be Reduced,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, IMTEC-90-89, Sep. 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

H. Bai, “Cognitive processes of prioritization in multitasking,” Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 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]

G. Vecsey, “Madoff Had Everything to Do With Reyes’s Leaving,” New York Times, p. B14, Dec. 06, 2011.

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 Robotics
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Robot.
ISSN (print)	1552-3098
Scope	Computer Science Applications Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering