How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems citation style

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

S. DeWeerdt, “Diagnostics: a testing journey,” Nature, vol. 474, no. 7350, pp. S20-1, Jun. 2011.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. A. Pielke Sr and T. N. Chase, “Comment on ‘Contributions of anthropogenic and natural forcing to recent tropopause height changes,’” Science, vol. 303, no. 5665, pp. 1771; author reply 1771, Mar. 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Qvarnström, T. Pärt, and B. C. Sheldon, “Adaptive plasticity in mate preference linked to differences in reproductive effort,” Nature, vol. 405, no. 6784, pp. 344–347, May 2000.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K. K. Kumar, B. Rajagopalan, M. Hoerling, G. Bates, and M. Cane, “Unraveling the mystery of Indian monsoon failure during El Niño,” Science, vol. 314, no. 5796, pp. 115–119, Oct. 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. V. O’Neil, Beginning Partial Differential Equations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2008.

An edited book

[1]

H. Huang, T. Liu, H.-P. Zhang, and J. Tang, Eds., Social Media Processing: Third National Conference, SMP 2014, Beijing, China, November 1-2, 2014. Proceedings, vol. 489. in Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 489. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Hellermann and S. Mohapatra, “Respiratory Syncytial Virus,” in Global Virology I - Identifying and Investigating Viral Diseases, P. Shapshak, J. T. Sinnott, C. Somboonwit, and J. H. Kuhn, Eds., New York, NY: Springer, 2015, pp. 73–92.

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 Fuzzy Systems.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Why Our Ancestors Were More Gender Equal Than Us,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-our-ancestors-were-more-gender-equal-us/

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 Assistance: Information on Payments Made Under the Disaster Relief and Insurance Reimbursement Programs,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-03-1156R, 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]

J. A. Piekielek, “Public wildlands at the U.S.-Mexico border: Where conservation, migration, and border enforcement collide,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 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]

D. A. Kelly, “36 Hours | Concord, Mass,” New York Times, p. F4, Jun. 28, 2002.

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 Fuzzy Systems
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Syst.
ISSN (print)	1063-6706
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Computational Theory and Mathematics Control and Systems Engineering Applied Mathematics