How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid citation style

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

C. B. Saper, “Biomedicine. Life, the universe, and body temperature,” Science, vol. 314, no. 5800, pp. 773–774, Nov. 2006.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. Qian and R. E. Ricklefs, “Large-scale processes and the Asian bias in species diversity of temperate plants,” Nature, vol. 407, no. 6801, pp. 180–182, Sep. 2000.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N. A. Kaib, S. N. Raymond, and M. Duncan, “Planetary system disruption by Galactic perturbations to wide binary stars,” Nature, vol. 493, no. 7432, pp. 381–384, Jan. 2013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. P. Chidgey, D. Layton, A. Trounson, and R. L. Boyd, “Tolerance strategies for stem-cell-based therapies,” Nature, vol. 453, no. 7193, pp. 330–337, May 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. Baines, J. Ferraro, and P. Rogers, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing 1660 - 1789. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

J. Liu, Advanced Sliding Mode Control for Mechanical Systems: Design, Analysis and MATLAB Simulation. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Shen, X. Huang, P. Zhou, L. Wang, and Y. Zhi, “Non-Point Source Pollution Characteristics of Agriculture-Derived Nitrogen in Groundwater in Suburban Area of Shanghai Based on Models,” in Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture V: 5th IFIP TC 5/SIG 5.1 Conference, CCTA 2011, Beijing, China, October 29-31, 2011, Proceedings, Part II, D. Li and Y. Chen, Eds., in IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012, pp. 32–42.

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 Smart Grid.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, “Lego’s Fantastic Instructions For Parents In 1973,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/legos-marvelous-parental-instructions-1973/

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, “NASA Property: Improving Management of Government Equipment Provided to Contractors,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, NSIAD-93-191, Sep. 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Bao, “Design enhancements in repetitive and interative learning control,” Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, New York, NY, 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]

S. Hodara, “Sculptures Big and Small, and All in the Open,” New York Times, p. WE10, Sep. 15, 2013.

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 Smart Grid
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Smart Grid
ISSN (print)	1949-3053
Scope	General Computer Science