Why the issue number is missing in reference?

Question

My source is:

@article{Astrm2014,
 doi = {10.1016/j.automatica.2013.10.012},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2013.10.012},
year  = {2014},
month = {jan},
publisher = {Elsevier {BV}},
volume = {50},
number = {1},
pages = {3--43},
author = {Karl J. A{\r{}}str\"{o}m and P.R. Kumar},
title = {Control: A perspective},
journal = {Automatica}
}

use package:

\usepackage{cite}
\bibliographystyle{ieeetr}

However, my reference output is:

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why the issues number of the reference is missing?

Because IEEE chose not to include it? It's not a mandatory field. Btw, your \r{A} seems corrupted, maybe {\AA}str\"{o}m would work better? — yo', Feb 05 '15 at 14:31
Thanks, {\r{A}}str\"{o}m goes the same way, your way is simpler. In fact, in all published IEEE paper, no. is included. — wayne, Feb 05 '15 at 14:35
Did you try with \bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}, which is the official style from IEEE? — egreg, Feb 05 '15 at 14:44
@yo' The following answers is more quick than the MWE I'm preparing. — wayne, Feb 05 '15 at 15:01
@egreg You're right, it's confirmed from this link [http://www.michaelshell.org/tex/ieeetran/bibtex/] — wayne, Feb 06 '15 at 03:04

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 05 '15 at 14:50

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The official bib style from IEEE is called IEEEtran.bst:

\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@article{Astrm2014,
  doi = {10.1016/j.automatica.2013.10.012},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2013.10.012},
  year  = {2014},
  month = jan,
  publisher = {Elsevier {BV}},
  volume = {50},
  number = {1},
  pages = {3-43},
  author = {Karl J. {\AA}str\"{o}m and P. R. Kumar},
  title = {Control: {A} perspective},
  journal = {Automatica},
}
\end{filecontents*}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{cite}
\usepackage{url}

\begin{document}

\cite{Astrm2014}

\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{\jobname}

\end{document}

Note that I used filecontents* just to make the example self contained, use your own bib file. Note also how I fixed the first author's name and the title. The abbreviation for the month should not go in braces.

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answered Feb 05 '15 at 14:50

egreg

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@Mico It has already been fixed. – egreg Feb 05 '15 at 14:56
It works perfect. Another question, I want to ignore the [Online]. Available:......, how could I do it without delete or comment the url? – wayne Feb 05 '15 at 15:20
@WangyanLi You can't without editing the .bst file. – egreg Feb 05 '15 at 15:21
Yes, you're right, it actually needs edit the .bst. I found this page [http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/57098/44227] solved my problem. – wayne Feb 06 '15 at 08:05

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

The ieeetr bibliography style is set not to typeset the contents of the number field of an entry of type @article.

As @yo' has already pointed out, you also need to fix the spelling of the first author's surname. I suggest you use {\AA}str{\"o}m. For more on how to input accented characters in bibliographies, see the posting How to write “ä” and other umlauts and accented letters in bibliography?

While you're fixing up the entry, you should also change the value of the month field from {jan} to jan. What's the difference, you may ask? The latter is recognized by BibTeX as a predefined string variable that evaluates to "Jan.", whereas the former will just be rendered as the string constant "jan".

enter image description here

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{abcxyz.bib}
@article{Astrm2014,
  doi = {10.1016/j.automatica.2013.10.012},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2013.10.012},
  year  = {2014},
  month = jan,
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  volume = {50},
  number = {1},
  pages = {3--43},
  author = {Karl J. {\AA}str{\"o}m and P. R. Kumar},
  title = {Control: A perspective},
  journal = {Automatica}
}
\end{filecontents}
\usepackage{cite}
\bibliographystyle{ieeetr}
\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\bibliography{abcxyz}
\end{document}

plus your other answer (see: [http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/57098/44227]) solved this problem perfectly — wayne, Feb 06 '15 at 10:09

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34

Let me make a summary. The efforts from @Mico and @egreg help a lot, much appreciated.

The main reason of Why the journal number is missing in reference? is that the \bibliographystyle is misused. the ieeetr is not an official bibliography style, the official one is IEEEtran, see this page http://www.michaelshell.org/tex/ieeetran/bibtex/, this bibliography style can make the reference output with no., just as @egreg posted enter image description here

However, here comes another question, the url information is also included in the output, which is not wanted by IEEE reference format. As pointed by @egreg

You can't without editing the .bst file.

Fortunately, @Mico's other answer has provided a solution on how to edit the .bst file, see this [https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/57098/44227]. With the efforts above, we can finally solve this problem perfectly:

enter image description here

Hopefully, the other readers may find this useful.

Why the issue number is missing in reference?

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