How to format your references using the IEEE Latin America Transactions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Latin America Transactions. 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]

N. Shevde, “Stem Cells: Flexible friends,” Nature, vol. 483, no. 7387, pp. S22-6, Feb. 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. G. Efremov and L. A. Sazanov, “Structure of the membrane domain of respiratory complex I,” Nature, vol. 476, no. 7361, pp. 414–420, Aug. 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E. R. Seiffert, E. L. Simons, and Y. Attia, “Fossil evidence for an ancient divergence of lorises and galagos,” Nature, vol. 422, no. 6930, pp. 421–424, Mar. 2003.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. Blanco, A. K. Palucka, M. Gill, V. Pascual, and J. Banchereau, “Induction of dendritic cell differentiation by IFN-alpha in systemic lupus erythematosus,” Science, vol. 294, no. 5546, pp. 1540–1543, Nov. 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B. Maidl, M. Thewes, and U. Maidl, Handbook of Tunnel Engineering II. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

A. Öchsner and H. Altenbach, Eds., Design and Computation of Modern Engineering Materials, vol. 54. in Advanced Structured Materials, vol. 54. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. S. Cristino, R. F. S. Andrade, and L. da Fontoura Costa, “Detecting and Characterizing the Modular Structure of the Yeast Transcription Network,” in Complex Networks: Results of the 2009 International Workshop on Complex Networks (CompleNet 2009), S. Fortunato, G. Mangioni, R. Menezes, and V. Nicosia, Eds., in Studies in Computational Intelligence. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009, pp. 35–46.

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 Latin America Transactions.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “How The Energy Grid Handles The Surge After A Solar Eclipse,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-energy-grid-handles-surge-after-solar-eclipse/

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, “Curriculum Case Studies Are of Questionable Quality but Helped Precollege Curriculum Activities,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, HRD-77-46, May 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. G. Manuel, “Integrate or Innovate: Controlling Schedule Risk in Major Defense Acquisition Programs,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2019.

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]

S. Hodara, “Brightening the Night With a Spring Palette,” New York Times, p. WE9, May 18, 2014.

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 Latin America Transactions
ISSN (print)	1548-0992
Scope	General Computer Science Electrical and Electronic Engineering