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]

O. Hallonsten, “Europe needs fresh focus on big-science projects,” Nature, vol. 518, no. 7539, p. 275, Feb. 2015.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Macnaghten and R. Owen, “Environmental science: good governance for geoengineering,” Nature, vol. 479, no. 7373, p. 293, Nov. 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Schorlemmer, S. Wiemer, and M. Wyss, “Variations in earthquake-size distribution across different stress regimes,” Nature, vol. 437, no. 7058, pp. 539–542, Sep. 2005.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Macrì, C. Ceci, L. Altabella, R. Canese, and G. Laviola, “The Directive 2010/63/EU on animal experimentation may skew the conclusions of pharmacological and behavioural studies,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 2380, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. J. Dewe, M. P. O’Driscoll, and C. L. Cooper, Coping with Work Stress. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

N. Dobretsov, N. Kolchanov, A. Rozanov, and G. Zavarzin, Eds., Biosphere Origin and Evolution. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

F. Praussello, “The Impact of the Eurozone Crisis on a Periphery Country: The Case of Italy,” in Societies in Transition: Economic, Political and Security Transformations in Contemporary Europe, S. Katsikides and P. I. Koktsidis, Eds., Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015, pp. 57–86.

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]

D. Andrew, “Five Ways To Make Your Child a Creative Genius,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/five-ways-to-make-your-child-a-creative-genius/

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, “Better Management Needed in Automating the Federal Judiciary,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GGD-81-19, Apr. 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. M. Tom, “Impact on achievement with ST math after school instruction,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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]

G. Vecsey, “A Continent’s Hopes Are Swatted Away,” New York Times, p. D1, Jul. 03, 2010.

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