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]

D. M. Bers, “Cardiac excitation-contraction coupling,” Nature, vol. 415, no. 6868, pp. 198–205, Jan. 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Joanicot and A. Ajdari, “Applied physics. Droplet control for microfluidics,” Science, vol. 309, no. 5736, pp. 887–888, Aug. 2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. J. Gill, O. Ramos-Rodriguez, and N. E. Raine, “Combined pesticide exposure severely affects individual- and colony-level traits in bees,” Nature, vol. 491, no. 7422, pp. 105–108, Nov. 2012.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Yoshida et al., “Microtubule-severing activity of Shigella is pivotal for intercellular spreading,” Science, vol. 314, no. 5801, pp. 985–989, 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]

A. S. Saghyan and P. Langer, Asymmetric Synthesis of Non&;#x02010;Proteinogenic Amino Acids. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley&;#x02010;VCH Verlag GmbH &;#38; Co. KGaA, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

G. A. Anastassiou, Intelligent Numerical Methods: Applications to Fractional Calculus, 1st ed. 2016., vol. 624. in Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol. 624. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Dedecker, P. Doukhan, G. Lang, L. R. José Rafael, S. Louhichi, and C. Prieur, “Tools for causal cases,” in Weak Dependence: With Examples and Applications, P. Doukhan, G. Lang, L. R. José Rafael, S. Louhichi, and C. Prieur, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Statistics. , New York, NY: Springer, 2007, pp. 103–134.

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]

J. Fang, “Britain Announces Creation Of World’s Largest Marine Reserve,” 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, “Regulatory Flexibility in Schools: What Happens When Schools Are Allowed to Change the Rules?,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, HEHS-94-102, Apr. 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. A. Caprile, “The geochemical influence of trace element concentrations from marine sedimentary bedrock on freshwater streams in the western Transverse Mountain Ranges,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2016.

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, “Fans in Green and Blue Give Life to Drab Stadium,” New York Times, p. B10, Aug. 17, 2010.

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