How to format your references using the IEEE Microwave Magazine citation style

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

M. P. Kavanaugh, “Accessing a transporter structure,” Nature, vol. 431, no. 7010, pp. 752–753, Oct. 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Jutzi and E. Asphaug, “Forming the lunar farside highlands by accretion of a companion moon,” Nature, vol. 476, no. 7358, pp. 69–72, Aug. 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

K. D. Bidle, M. Manganelli, and F. Azam, “Regulation of oceanic silicon and carbon preservation by temperature control on bacteria,” Science, vol. 298, no. 5600, pp. 1980–1984, Dec. 2002.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Ji et al., “Role of microstructures on the M1-M2 phase transition in epitaxial VO2 thin films,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 4854, May 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. T. Rachev, Y. S. Kim, M. L. Bianchi, and F. J. Fabozzi, Financial Models with Lévy Processes and Volatility Clustering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.

An edited book

[1]

C. A. Guzmán and G. Z. Feuerstein, Eds., Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, vol. 655. in Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol. 655. New York, NY: Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Bushek and D. M. Allen, “Motile Suspension-Feeders in Estuarine and Marine Ecosystems,” in The Comparative Roles of Suspension-Feeders in Ecosystems: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on The Comparative Roles of Suspension-Feeders in Ecosystems Nida, Lithuania 4–9 October 2003, R. F. Dame and S. Olenin, Eds., in NATO Science Series IV: Earth and Environmental Series. , Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2005, pp. 53–71.

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 Microwave Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Scientists Freeze Atoms to Near Absolute Zero,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/scientists-freeze-atoms-absolute-zero-microwaves/

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, “Transportation Infrastructure: FHWA Should Assess and Compare the Benefits of Projects When Awarding Discretionary Grants,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, RCED-99-263, Sep. 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T. Smith, “Outsider leadership transitions: A phenomenological study of Army Reserve General Officers,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 2012.

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. Cooper, “City Opera Unveils 2017-18 Season,” New York Times, p. C2, May 24, 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 Microwave Magazine
Abbreviation	IEEE Microw. Mag.
ISSN (print)	1527-3342
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Condensed Matter Physics Radiation