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]

C. R. Kaiser, “Astronomy. Simmering, not boiling,” Science, vol. 318, no. 5849, pp. 404–405, Oct. 2007.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Jutzi and E. Asphaug, “COMETARY NUCLEI. The shape and structure of cometary nuclei as a result of low-velocity accretion,” Science, vol. 348, no. 6241, pp. 1355–1358, Jun. 2015.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Gollihar, M. Levy, and A. D. Ellington, “Biochemistry. Many paths to the origin of life,” Science, vol. 343, no. 6168, pp. 259–260, Jan. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Zhao, B. K. Sun, J. A. Erwin, J.-J. Song, and J. T. Lee, “Polycomb proteins targeted by a short repeat RNA to the mouse X chromosome,” Science, vol. 322, no. 5902, pp. 750–756, Oct. 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Guzik, Essentials for Occupational Health Nursing. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

An edited book

[1]

T. A. Horton and L. Lemisko, Eds., Educator to Educator: Unpacking and Repacking Generative Concepts in Social Studies. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Giorgi, “1995,” in Storie e protagonisti della matematica italiana: per raccontare 20 anni di «Lettera Matematica Pristem», R. Betti, A. Guerraggio, and S. Termini, Eds., in I blu. , Milano: Springer, 2013, pp. 65–78.

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, “Forget About The Olympics, It’s The Paralympics Where The True Super-Humans Perform,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/forget-about-the-olympics-its-the-paralympics-where-the-true-superhumans-perform/

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, “Misuse of SBA’s 8(a) Program Increased Cost for Many ADP Equipment Acquisitions,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, AFMD-82-9, Oct. 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. C. Ashbran, “Examining student learning in a physics pedagogical content knowledge course,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2011.

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. Pilon, “Sports Access For Disabled Is Clarified,” New York Times, p. D5, Jan. 26, 2013.

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