How to format your references using the IEEE Magnetics Letters citation style

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

D. R. Recupero, “Computer science. Toward a green Internet,” Science, vol. 339, no. 6127, pp. 1533–1534, Mar. 2013.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. A. Hadders and S. M. A. Lens, “Cell biology. Mind the midzone,” Science, vol. 345, no. 6194, pp. 265–266, Jul. 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. P. Rapp, N. Shimizu, and M. D. Norman, “Growth of early continental crust by partial melting of eclogite,” Nature, vol. 425, no. 6958, pp. 605–609, Oct. 2003.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

N. F. Mathon, D. S. Malcolm, M. C. Harrisingh, L. Cheng, and A. C. Lloyd, “Lack of replicative senescence in normal rodent glia,” Science, vol. 291, no. 5505, pp. 872–875, Feb. 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. J. Walter, Practical Compliance with the EPA Risk Management Program. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998.

An edited book

[1]

S. Schaltegger, D. Zvezdov, I. Alvarez Etxeberria, M. Csutora, and E. Günther, Eds., Corporate Carbon and Climate Accounting, 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. E. Alvermann and C. A. Mallozzi, “Moving Beyond the Gold Standard: Epistemological and Ontological Considerations of Research in Science Literacy,” in Quality Research in Literacy and Science Education: International Perspectives and Gold Standards, M. C. Shelley, L. D. Yore, and B. Hand, Eds., Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2009, pp. 63–81.

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 Magnetics Letters.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, “Your Brain Is ‘Hard-Wired’ To React Without Thinking,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/your-brain-hard-wired-react-without-thinking/

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, “Status of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Modernization Program,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, NSIAD-85-78, Jul. 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E. R. Brown, “Comparison of instructional techniques of high school economics teachers in Georgia and Shenzhen, China,” Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 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]

B. Kenigsberg, “They Call Us Monsters,” New York Times, p. C11, Jan. 19, 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 Magnetics Letters
Abbreviation	IEEE Magn. Lett.
ISSN (print)	1949-307X
Scope	Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials