How to format your references using the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. 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]

G. H. Thomas, “Evolution: An avian explosion,” Nature, vol. 526, no. 7574, pp. 516–517, Oct. 2015.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G. M. Mullen and C. B. Mullins, “Chemistry. Water’s place in Au catalysis,” Science, vol. 345, no. 6204, pp. 1564–1565, Sep. 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. K. Shalm, R. B. A. Adamson, and A. M. Steinberg, “Squeezing and over-squeezing of triphotons,” Nature, vol. 457, no. 7225, pp. 67–70, Jan. 2009.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D.-S. Tsai et al., “Solar-blind photodetectors for harsh electronics,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 2628, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. G. Pai MD FACC FRCP Edin and P. Varadarajan MD FACC, Echocardiography Board Review. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

D. Cao and S. White, Eds., Animal Law and Welfare - International Perspectives, 1st ed. 2016., vol. 53. in Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, vol. 53. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Horvath, L. Hoge, and R. Cameron, “Wearable Tech Electronics,” in Practical Fashion Tech: Wearable Technologies for Costuming, Cosplay, and Everyday, L. Hoge and R. Cameron, Eds., Berkeley, CA: Apress, 2016, pp. 81–102.

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 Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Loss of Y Chromosome Increases Risk for Cancer and Early Death,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/loss-y-chromosome-increases-risk-cancer-and-early-death/

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, “Aviation Security: Progress Since September 11, 2001, and the Challenges Ahead,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-03-1150T, Sep. 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Mande, “Sisyphus’s Fault: How the Shifting Terrain of a Changing Institution Makes Curriculum Reform an ‘Impossible Task,’” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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]

M. J. O. Murphy, “Theodore Roosevelt on How You Kill a Lion,” New York Times, p. C25, Aug. 07, 2015.

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 Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics
Abbreviation	IEEE J. Emerg. Sel. Top. Power Electron.
ISSN (print)	2168-6777
Scope