How to format your references using the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems 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]

Y. Li, “The evolution of reputation-based partner-switching behaviors with a cost,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 5957, Aug. 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E. Apostolou and K. Hochedlinger, “Chromatin dynamics during cellular reprogramming,” Nature, vol. 502, no. 7472, pp. 462–471, Oct. 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. B. S. Sidhu, D. Verdier-Pinard, and D. A. Fidock, “Chloroquine resistance in Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites conferred by pfcrt mutations,” Science, vol. 298, no. 5591, pp. 210–213, Oct. 2002.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. R. Shelly, G. C. Beroza, S. Ide, and S. Nakamula, “Low-frequency earthquakes in Shikoku, Japan, and their relationship to episodic tremor and slip,” Nature, vol. 442, no. 7099, pp. 188–191, Jul. 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Dubin, Numerical and Analytical Methods for Scientists and Engineers, Using Mathematica. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.

An edited book

[1]

R. Tiwari, Aiming Big with Small Cars: Emergence of a Lead Market in India. in India Studies in Business and Economics. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. M. van Hee, N. Sidorova, and J. M. van der Werf, “Business Process Modeling Using Petri Nets,” in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency VII, K. Jensen, W. M. P. van der Aalst, G. Balbo, M. Koutny, and K. Wolf, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013, pp. 116–161.

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 Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Resetting the Timeline on the Evolution of Flowers,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/resetting-timeline-evolution-flowers/

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, “Social Security Administration’s Systems Modernization Plan,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, T-IMTEC-89-11, Sep. 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E. Restrepo, “Eventalizing blackness in Colombia,” Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2009.

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. Wagner, “With a Final Shot, the Mets Are Denied as the Braves Snatch a Sweep,” New York Times, p. B13, Sep. 22, 2016.

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 Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine
ISSN (print)	1939-1390
Scope	Computer Science Applications Automotive Engineering Mechanical Engineering