How to format your references using the IEEE Industry Applications Magazine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Industry Applications Magazine. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

P. Pockley, “Funding bonanza for astronomy and biotech in Australia,” Nature, vol. 412, no. 6850, p. 846, Aug. 2001.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. E. Leiserson and C. McVinney, “Lifelong learning: Science professors need leadership training,” Nature, vol. 523, no. 7560, pp. 279–281, Jul. 2015.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P. Schall, D. A. Weitz, and F. Spaepen, “Structural rearrangements that govern flow in colloidal glasses,” Science, vol. 318, no. 5858, pp. 1895–1899, Dec. 2007.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. A. Sliter et al., “Parkin and PINK1 mitigate STING-induced inflammation,” Nature, vol. 561, no. 7722, pp. 258–262, Sep. 2018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

N. Cooper, K. Forrest, and P. Cramp, Essential Guide to Acute Care. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

M. Capitelli, Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Chemical Physics: Transport, vol. 74. in Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, vol. 74. New York, NY: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. Shi and S. Ólafsson, “Hybrid Nested Partitions Algorithm,” in Nested Partitions Method, Theory and Applications, S. Ólafsson, Ed., in International Series in Operations Research & Management Science. , Boston, MA: Springer US, 2009, pp. 85–103.

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 Industry Applications Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, “Ancient Spider-Like Predator Resurrected,” 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, “Telecommunications: Charges for Itemized Cellular Telephone Bills,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, RCED-93-214FS, Sep. 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. H. Edwards, “Why Do They Get High?: An Examination of Social Bond Theory and Substance Use in College,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 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]

J. Anderson, “Family Pain, Rendered in Dazzling Color,” New York Times, p. AR15, Apr. 05, 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 Industry Applications Magazine
Abbreviation	IEEE Ind. Appl. Mag.
ISSN (print)	1077-2618
Scope	Energy Engineering and Power Technology Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering