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

Koen, D.: ‘Time to make haste’Nature, 2007, 447, (7147), p. 1030.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ranero, C.R., Pérez-Gussinyé, M.: ‘Sequential faulting explains the asymmetry and extension discrepancy of conjugate margins’Nature, 2010, 468, (7321), pp. 294–299.

A journal article with 3 authors

Garcia, P., Armstrong, R., Zaman, M.H.: ‘Models of education in medicine, public health, and engineering’Science, 2014, 345, (6202), pp. 1281–1283.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wood, A.J., Lo, T.-W., Zeitler, B., et al.: ‘Targeted genome editing across species using ZFNs and TALENs’Science, 2011, 333, (6040), p. 307.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tolinski, M.: ‘Plastics and Sustainability’ (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011)

An edited book

Fangueiro, R., Rana, S. (Eds.): ‘Natural Fibres: Advances in Science and Technology Towards Industrial Applications: From Science to Market’ (Springer Netherlands, 2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Banerjee, S., Gerlitz, J.-Y., Kniveton, D.: ‘A Methodology for Assessing Patterns of Labour Migration in Mountain Communities Exposed to Water Hazards’, in Faist, T., Schade, J. (Eds.): ‘Disentangling Migration and Climate Change: Methodologies, Political Discourses and Human Rights’ (Springer Netherlands, 2013), pp. 81–100

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

Andrew, E.: ‘When Myth Meets Reality: Fabled Beasts And Real-Life Creatures’, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/when-myth-meets-reality-fabled-beasts-and-real-life-creatures/, 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: ‘Subcontract Estimates Included in Prime Contract Prices at Amphenol Space and Missile Systems Division’ (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1974)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Catalini, M.: ‘Intrinsic rewards increase job performance within an organization’. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 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

Crow, K.: ‘A Decision on a Convicted Killer Looses a Rush of Musical Memories’New York Times, 2000, p. 146.

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

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