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]

R. Neutze, “STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY. Snapshots of a protein quake,” Science, vol. 350, no. 6259, p. 381, Oct. 2015.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. Cepko and C. Punzo, “Cell metabolism: Sugar for sight,” Nature, vol. 522, no. 7557, pp. 428–429, Jun. 2015.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Sakamaki, A. Suzuki, and E. Ohtani, “Stability of hydrous melt at the base of the Earth’s upper mantle,” Nature, vol. 439, no. 7073, pp. 192–194, Jan. 2006.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. P. Chen, Q. Liu, Y. J. Liu, F. A. Jia, and X. H. He, “Responses of soil microbial activity to cadmium pollution and elevated CO2,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 4287, Mar. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Chappell, The JCT Standard Building Contract 2011. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

L. Enjuanes, Ed., Coronavirus Replication and Reverse Genetics, vol. 287. in Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, vol. 287. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Adshead and T. Davies, “Wise Restraints: Ethical Issues in the Coercion of Forensic Patients,” in The Use of Coercive Measures in Forensic Psychiatric Care: Legal, Ethical and Practical Challenges, B. Völlm and N. Nedopil, Eds., Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 69–86.

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]

K. Hamilton, “Watch A Gold Bar Get Crushed By A Hydraulic Press,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/watch-a-gold-bar-get-crushed-by-a-hydraulic-press/

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, “Weather Forecasting: Important Issues on Automated Weather Processing System Need Resolution,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, IMTEC-93-12BR, Jan. 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. A. Cusick, “Does size really matter? How synchrony and size affect the dynamic of aggression between two sympatric species of dolphin in the Bahamas,” Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, 2012.

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]

M. Paulson, “‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’ Is Closing on Broadway,” New York Times, p. C3, Sep. 06, 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 Antennas and Propagation Magazine
Abbreviation	IEEE Antennas Propag. Mag.
ISSN (print)	1045-9243
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Condensed Matter Physics