How to format your references using the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Magazine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility 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]

B. Chazelle, “Computer science. Coding and computing join forces,” Science, vol. 317, no. 5845, pp. 1691–1692, Sep. 2007.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. W. Vaughn and R. Martienssen, “It’s a small RNA world, after all,” Science, vol. 309, no. 5740, pp. 1525–1526, Sep. 2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. A. Caraveo-Frescas, M. A. Khan, and H. N. Alshareef, “Polymer ferroelectric field-effect memory device with SnO channel layer exhibits record hole mobility,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 5243, Jun. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. H. Haering, A.-M. Farcas, P. Arumugam, J. Metson, and K. Nasmyth, “The cohesin ring concatenates sister DNA molecules,” Nature, vol. 454, no. 7202, pp. 297–301, Jul. 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

N.-E. Choi and J. H. Han, How Flavor Works. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

L. J. De Kok, M. J. Hawkesford, H. Rennenberg, K. Saito, and E. Schnug, Eds., Molecular Physiology and Ecophysiology of Sulfur, 1st ed. 2015. in Proceedings of the International Plant Sulfur Workshop. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Weltner, P. Schuster, W. J. Weber, and J. Grosjean, “Exponential, Logarithmic and Hyperbolic Functions,” in Mathematics for Physicists and Engineers: Fundamentals and Interactive Study Guide, W. J. Weber, J. Grosjean, and P. Schuster, Eds., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009, pp. 69–84.

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 Electromagnetic Compatibility Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “What If It Happened Again? What We Need To Do To Prepare For A Nuclear Event,” 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, “Educational Testing: The Canadian Experience With Standards, Examinations, and Assessments,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, PEMD-93-11, Apr. 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. S. Warfield, “Speaking of the Self: Theorizing the Dialogical Dimensions of Ethical Agency,” Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 2017.

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]

K. Crow, “Not on My Sidewalk: The Battle Over Street Trees,” New York Times, p. 145, Jul. 21, 2002.

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 Electromagnetic Compatibility Magazine
Abbreviation	IEEE Electromagn. Compat. Mag.
ISSN (print)	2162-2264
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Signal Processing Software Electrical and Electronic Engineering Instrumentation