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]

P. Fara, “Perceptions of science. Face values: how portraits win friends and influence people,” Science, vol. 299, no. 5608, pp. 831–832, Feb. 2003.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

F. Bezanilla and E. Perozo, “Structural biology. Force and voltage sensors in one structure,” Science, vol. 298, no. 5598, pp. 1562–1563, Nov. 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. J. Levey, R. S. Duncan, and C. F. Levins, “Animal behaviour: use of dung as a tool by burrowing owls,” Nature, vol. 431, no. 7004, p. 39, Sep. 2004.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K.-I. Tsutsui, H. Sakata, T. Naganuma, and M. Taira, “Neural correlates for perception of 3D surface orientation from texture gradient,” Science, vol. 298, no. 5592, pp. 409–412, Oct. 2002.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T. J. Henderson, Beyond Borders. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

D. Baleanu, J. A. T. Machado, and A. C. J. Luo, Eds., Fractional Dynamics and Control. New York, NY: Springer, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Serra, “Grain Building Ordering,” in Mathematical Morphology and Its Applications to Image and Signal Processing: 10th International Symposium, ISMM 2011, Verbania-Intra, Italy, July 6-8, 2011. Proceedings, P. Soille, M. Pesaresi, and G. K. Ouzounis, Eds. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011, pp. 37–48.

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]

J. O`Callaghan, “Watch Cassini Dive Over Saturn In This Amazing Video,” IFLScience, May 04, 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-cassini-dive-over-saturn-in-this-amazing-video/ (accessed Oct. 30, 2018).

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, “Highway Safety: Preliminary Observations on Efforts to Implement Changes in the Highway Safety Improvement Program Since SAFETEA-LU,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-08-1015T, Jul. 2008.

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. Miles, “Elicitation of a Program’s Behaviors,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 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]

B. Rothenberg, “With Appeal Over, Sharapova Lobs Criticism at Tennis Leaders,” New York Times, p. B10, Oct. 05, 2016.

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]–[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

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