How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science citation style

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

J. Mervis, “TEACHER TRAINING: How to Produce Better Math and Science Teachers,” Science, vol. 289, no. 5484, pp. 1454–1455, Sep. 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. Drakesmith and A. M. Prentice, “Hepcidin and the iron-infection axis,” Science, vol. 338, no. 6108, pp. 768–772, Nov. 2012.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Hori, T. Nomura, and S. Sakaguchi, “Control of regulatory T cell development by the transcription factor Foxp3,” Science, vol. 299, no. 5609, pp. 1057–1061, Feb. 2003.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.-S. Bouillard, P. Segovia, W. Dickson, G. A. Wurtz, and A. V. Zayats, “Shaping plasmon beams via the controlled illumination of finite-size plasmonic crystals,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 7234, Nov. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T. R. Robinson, Genetics for Dummies®. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

[1]

I. Tsesis, Ed., Complications in Endodontic Surgery: Prevention, Identification and Management. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Steiger, A. E. Charola, and K. Sterflinger, “Weathering and Deterioration,” in Stone in Architecture: Properties, Durability, S. Siegesmund and R. Snethlage, Eds., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011, pp. 227–316.

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 Plasma Science.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, “Why Do Science Issues Seem To Divide Us Along Party Lines?,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/why-do-science-issues-seem-to-divide-us-along-party-lines/

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, “Alleged Violations of the Kentucky State Plan for Vocational Education and Federal Regulations on Vocational Education by the Kentucky Department of Education,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, B-164031(1), Mar. 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. H. Potter, “Marx Generator Charged via Biperiodic Resonant Cascaded Transformers,” Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 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]

G. Vecsey, “Another Storm to Weather,” New York Times, p. D1, Feb. 28, 2011.

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 Plasma Science
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. IEEE Nucl. Plasma Sci. Soc.
ISSN (print)	0093-3813
Scope	Condensed Matter Physics Nuclear and High Energy Physics