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]

L. K. Sydnes, “Policy: Update the Chemical Weapons Convention,” Nature, vol. 496, no. 7443, pp. 25–26, Apr. 2013.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

I. A. Walmsley and M. G. Raymer, “Applied physics. Toward quantum-information processing with photons,” Science, vol. 307, no. 5716, pp. 1733–1734, Mar. 2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Z. Zhang, H. Li, and Y. Sheng, “Effects of reciprocity on random walks in weighted networks,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 7460, Dec. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K. H. Tsang et al., “The nucleosome assembly protein TSPYL2 regulates the expression of NMDA receptor subunits GluN2A and GluN2B,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 3654, Jan. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. J. Zwecher, Retirement Portfolios. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

[1]

L. Lipper, T. Sakuyama, R. Stringer, and D. Zilberman, Eds., Payment for Environmental Services in Agricultural Landscapes: Economic Policies and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries, vol. 31. in Natural Resource Management and Policy, vol. 31. New York, NY: Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Zhai, Y. Wu, J. Lu, and F. Yan, “A Fuzzy Negotiation Model with Genetic Algorithms,” in Integration and Innovation Orient to E-Society Volume 1: Seventh IFIP International Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E2007), October 10–12, Wuhan, China, W. Wang, Y. Li, Z. Duan, L. Yan, H. Li, and X. Yang, Eds., in IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. , Boston, MA: Springer US, 2008, pp. 35–43.

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, “Watch This Parasitic Fungus Erupt From An Ant’s Head,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-parasitic-fungus-erupt-ants-head/

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, “Federal Communications Commission: Broadcast Services, Television Broadcast Stations, and TV Transmission Standards,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, OGC-97-18, Apr. 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. A. McCarthy, “Mentoring’s critical components: Four traditional teachers’, four alternate -route teachers’, and four mentors’ perspectives,” Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 2010.

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. S. Schmidt and M. Apuzzo, “Trump Lawyer Spreads Email With Secessionist Rhetoric,” New York Times, p. A16, Aug. 16, 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