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]

J. R. Regalbuto, “Engineering. Cellulosic biofuels--got gasoline?,” Science, vol. 325, no. 5942, pp. 822–824, Aug. 2009.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. D. Rabinowitz and E. White, “Autophagy and metabolism,” Science, vol. 330, no. 6009, pp. 1344–1348, Dec. 2010.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

I. Mellman, G. Coukos, and G. Dranoff, “Cancer immunotherapy comes of age,” Nature, vol. 480, no. 7378, pp. 480–489, Dec. 2011.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. K. Day, H. G. LeDuc, B. A. Mazin, A. Vayonakis, and J. Zmuidzinas, “A broadband superconducting detector suitable for use in large arrays,” Nature, vol. 425, no. 6960, pp. 817–821, Oct. 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. L. Rabe and R. J. Martorana, Alts Democratized. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

H. Müller, H. Greenspan, and T. Syeda-Mahmood, Eds., Medical Content-Based Retrieval for Clinical Decision Support: Second MICCAI International Workshop, MCBR-CDS 2011, Toronto, ON, Canada, September 22, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, vol. 7075. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 7075. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Sloan, “The Lives of Mrs Delany’s Paper Plants,” in The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences, A. Craciun and S. Schaffer, Eds., London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016, pp. 39–41.

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]

E. Andrew, “First Atomic Bomb Test May Mark The Beginning Of The Anthropocene,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/first-atomic-bomb-test-may-mark-beginning-anthropocene/

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, “The Federal Wind Energy Program,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, EMD-77-33, Mar. 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. S. Selph, “Origins of Music Programs in Liberal Arts Institutions: The Story of Three Florida Catholic Universities,” Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 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. J. O. Murphy, “Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times,” New York Times, p. C33, May 08, 2015.

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