How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. 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 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]

K. Sanderson, “US biofuels: a field in ferment,” Nature, vol. 444, no. 7120, pp. 673–676, Dec. 2006.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. L. Goodson and A. H. Bass, “Forebrain peptides modulate sexually polymorphic vocal circuitry,” Nature, vol. 403, no. 6771, pp. 769–772, Feb. 2000.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. M. Yartsev, M. P. Witter, and N. Ulanovsky, “Grid cells without theta oscillations in the entorhinal cortex of bats,” Nature, vol. 479, no. 7371, pp. 103–107, Nov. 2011.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Bai et al., “Large-scale, three-dimensional, free-standing, and mesoporous metal oxide networks for high-performance photocatalysis,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 2204, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Wilson, Visual Guide to Financial Markets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012.

An edited book

[1]

A. L. C. Bazzan and K. Pichara, Eds., Advances in Artificial Intelligence -- IBERAMIA 2014: 14th Ibero-American Conference on AI, Santiago de Chile, Chile, November 24-27, 2014, Proceedings, vol. 8864. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8864. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Jeuring, S. Leather, J. Pedro Magalhães, and A. Rodriguez Yakushev, “Libraries for Generic Programming in Haskell,” in Advanced Functional Programming: 6th International School, AFP 2008, Heijen, The Netherlands, May 2008, Revised Lectures, P. Koopman, R. Plasmeijer, and D. Swierstra, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009, pp. 165–229.

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 Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, “Early Exposure To Pets, Dirt & Germs Are Good For Babies,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/early-exposure-pets-dirt-germs-are-good-babies/

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 Numbers: Federal Actions Could Further Decrease Availability in Public Records, though Other Vulnerabilities Remain,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-07-752, Jun. 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. A. Beasley, “Investigations of redox-labeled silica and gold nanoparticles in solution and as films on electrodes,” Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2010.

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]

D. Kelly, “Smoked,” New York Times, p. BR18, Sep. 21, 2008.

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 Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Autom. Sci. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1545-5955
Scope	Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering