How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery citation style

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

M. Watanabe, “Immunology goes global,” Nature, vol. 435, no. 7046, pp. 1282–1283, Jun. 2005.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. P. Hamilton and H. Krüger, “The sculpting of Jupiter’s gossamer rings by its shadow,” Nature, vol. 453, no. 7191, pp. 72–75, May 2008.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y. Román-Leshkov, J. N. Chheda, and J. A. Dumesic, “Phase modifiers promote efficient production of hydroxymethylfurfural from fructose,” Science, vol. 312, no. 5782, pp. 1933–1937, Jun. 2006.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B. Bhaduri, M. Kandel, C. Brugnara, K. Tangella, and G. Popescu, “Optical assay of erythrocyte function in banked blood,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 6211, Sep. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

I. Ford, Statistical Physics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

M. He, Metal-Dielectric Interfaces in Gigascale Electronics: Thermal and Electrical Stability, vol. 157. in Springer Series in Materials Science, vol. 157. New York, NY: Springer, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Hu, Z.-Q. Wu, and Y. Liu, “The fish fauna of mountain streams in the Guanshan National Nature Reserve, Jiangxi, China,” in Chinese Fishes, D. L. G. Noakes, A. Romero, Y. Zhao, and Y. Zhou, Eds., in Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes. , Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2009, pp. 23–27.

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 Power Delivery.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Awesome Teenage Innovations That Deserve Showcasing,” IFLScience.

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, “Education and Employment Issue Area Plan--Fiscal Years 1996-98,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, IAP-96-19, Jun. 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. P. Eggleston, “An Investigation of the Difference in Student Achievement during the Middle School Transition Years,” Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO, 2014.

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. Blecher, “Berra’s Values Shape Museum’s Mission,” New York Times, p. NJ10, May 31, 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 Transactions on Power Delivery
ISSN (print)	0885-8977
Scope	Energy Engineering and Power Technology Electrical and Electronic Engineering