How to format your references using the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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. L. Benovic, “Structural biology: Arresting developments in receptor signalling,” Nature, vol. 523, no. 7562, pp. 538–539, Jul. 2015.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. B. Jaffe and A. Hall, “Cell biology. Smurfing at the leading edge,” Science, vol. 302, no. 5651, pp. 1690–1691, Dec. 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

V. Peirce, S. Carobbio, and A. Vidal-Puig, “The different shades of fat,” Nature, vol. 510, no. 7503, pp. 76–83, Jun. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Gigliobianco et al., “An alternative role of FoF1-ATP synthase in Escherichia coli: synthesis of thiamine triphosphate,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 1071, Jan. 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Chartered Institute of Building, Code of Practice for Project Management for Construction and Development. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

F. Squazzoni, Ed., Epistemological Aspects of Computer Simulation in the Social Sciences: Second International Workshop, EPOS 2006, Brescia, Italy, October 5-6, 2006, Revised Selected and Invited Papers, vol. 5466. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5466. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Mustakova-Possardt and J. Woodall, “Toward Social Health for a Global Community,” in Toward a Socially Responsible Psychology for a Global Era, E. Mustakova-Possardt, M. Lyubansky, M. Basseches, and J. Oxenberg, Eds., in International and Cultural Psychology. , New York, NY: Springer, 2014, pp. 91–119.

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 Antennas and Propagation Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, “The Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight,” 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, “Traffic Congestion: The Need and Opportunity for Federal Involvement,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, T-PEMD-91-10, May 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. M. Mayfield, “Project managers’ experience and description of decision uncertainty associated with the agile software development methodology: A phenomenological study,” Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 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]

G. Vecsey, “A Summer With Uncle Casey In the Town He Owned,” New York Times, p. SP2, Apr. 17, 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 Antennas and Propagation Magazine
Abbreviation	IEEE Antennas Propag. Mag.
ISSN (print)	1045-9243
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Condensed Matter Physics