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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. 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]

Q. Schiermeier, “Low stocks prompt calls for North Atlantic fishing ban,” Nature, vol. 419, no. 6910, p. 866, Oct. 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

W. T. Mallon and D. Korn, “Education. Bonus pay for research faculty,” Science, vol. 303, no. 5657, pp. 476–477, Jan. 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G. Jimenez-Sanchez, B. Childs, and D. Valle, “Human disease genes,” Nature, vol. 409, no. 6822, pp. 853–855, Feb. 2001.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L. K. Temple, R. S. McLeod, S. Gallinger, and J. G. Wright, “Essays on science and society. Defining disease in the genomics era,” Science, vol. 293, no. 5531, pp. 807–808, Aug. 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Dickenson, F. Freeman, C. L. Mills, S. Sivasubramaniam, and C. Thode, Molecular Pharmacology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

D. Eberhardt, The Future of Leadership - An Explorative Study into Tomorrow’s Leadership Challenges. in SpringerBriefs in Psychology. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. S. Bhojwani and P. K. Dantu, “Cytodifferentiation,” in Plant Tissue Culture: An Introductory Text, P. K. Dantu, Ed., New Delhi: Springer India, 2013, pp. 51–61.

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 Wireless Propagation Letters.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, “Parasitic Flies, Zombified Ants, Predator Beetles – Insect Drama On Mexican Coffee Plantations,” 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, “Income Security Issue Area: Active Assignments,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, AA-95-14(4), Oct. 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. Valdez, “Taking a closer look at the mental health services act of 2004: A policy analysis,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2015.

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. Cooper, “When the Fire Fades,” New York Times, p. AR1, May 31, 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 Wireless Propagation Letters
Abbreviation	IEEE Antennas Wirel. Propag. Lett.
ISSN (print)	1536-1225
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering