How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: 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]

D. J. Weatherall, “Genomics and global health: time for a reappraisal,” Science, vol. 302, no. 5645, pp. 597–599, Oct. 2003.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Y. Dudai and M. Carruthers, “The Janus face of Mnemosyne,” Nature, vol. 434, no. 7033, p. 567, Mar. 2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.-L. Hsu, C. T. Murphy, and C. Kenyon, “Regulation of aging and age-related disease by DAF-16 and heat-shock factor,” Science, vol. 300, no. 5622, pp. 1142–1145, May 2003.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. Uauy, A. Distelfeld, T. Fahima, A. Blechl, and J. Dubcovsky, “A NAC Gene regulating senescence improves grain protein, zinc, and iron content in wheat,” Science, vol. 314, no. 5803, pp. 1298–1301, Nov. 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

É. André and R. Soulat, The Inverse Method. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

An edited book

[1]

A. Darling and J. Stoye, Eds., Algorithms in Bioinformatics: 13th International Workshop, WABI 2013, Sophia Antipolis, France, September 2-4, 2013. Proceedings, vol. 8126. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8126. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

W. P. Ceelen, S. Morris, P. Paraskeva, and P. Pattyn, “Surgical Trauma, Minimal Residual Disease and Locoregional Cancer Recurrence,” in Peritoneal Carcinomatosis: A Multidisciplinary Approach, W. P. Ceelen, Ed., Boston, MA: Springer US, 2007, pp. 51–69.

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 Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Icy Plumes Bursting From Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Suggest It Could Harbour Life,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/icy-plumes-bursting-saturn-s-moon-enceladus-suggest-it-could-harbour-life/

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, “Technology Transfer and Innovation Can Help Cities Identify Problems and Solutions,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, PSAD-75-110, Aug. 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

P. Chepete, “Modeling of the factors affecting mathematical achievement of Form 1 students in Botswana based on the 2003 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study,” Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2008.

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. Chira, “A New Rating For Portrayals Of Gender,” New York Times, p. C1, Jun. 20, 2017.

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 Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Syst.
ISSN (print)	2168-2216
Scope	Computer Science Applications Human-Computer Interaction Software Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering