How to format your references using the IET Electrical Systems in Transportation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IET Electrical Systems in Transportation. 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

Tomioka, K.: ‘Condensed-matter Physics: Flat transistor defies the limit’Nature, 2015, 526, (7571), pp. 51–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

Camacho, J., Arenas, A.: ‘Food-web topology: universal scaling in food-web structure?’Nature, 2005, 435, (7044), pp. E3-4; discussion E4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dragoi, V., Rivadulla, C., Sur, M.: ‘Foci of orientation plasticity in visual cortex’Nature, 2001, 411, (6833), pp. 80–86.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rudebeck, P.H., Buckley, M.J., Walton, M.E., Rushworth, M.F.S.: ‘A role for the macaque anterior cingulate gyrus in social valuation’Science, 2006, 313, (5791), pp. 1310–1312.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lewis, S.: ‘Positive Psychology and Change’ (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2016)

An edited book

Dummer, R., Pittelkow, M.R., Iwatsuki, K., Green, A., Elwan, N.M. (Eds.): ‘Skin Cancer - A World-Wide Perspective’ (Springer, 2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Leonida, M.D., Kumar, I.: ‘Transdermal and Topical Delivery to the Skin’, in Kumar, I. (Ed.): ‘Bionanomaterials for Skin Regeneration’ (Springer International Publishing, 2016), pp. 27–35

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 IET Electrical Systems in Transportation.

Blog post

Taub, B.: ‘Zika Warnings May Lead To Increase In Back-Alley Abortions In Latin America, Experts Fear’, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/zika-warnings-may-lead-to-increase-in-backalley-abortions-in-latin-america-experts-fear/, accessed October 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

Government Accountability Office: ‘Technology Development: Future Use of NASA’s Large Format Camera Is Uncertain’ (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nguyen, J.: ‘Adherence to medications among Vietnamese Americans 65 years of age and older’. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

Wagner, J.: ‘Cabrera Puts End to Wild Game With 1 1th-Inning Homer’New York Times, 2016, p. B9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2, 4].
This sentence cites four references [2, 4, 6, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	IET Electrical Systems in Transportation
Abbreviation	IET Electr. Syst. Transp.
ISSN (print)	2042-9738
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering