How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 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]

K. Heki, “Geophysics. A tale of two earthquakes,” Science, vol. 332, no. 6036, pp. 1390–1391, Jun. 2011.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

V. Lavallo and R. H. Grubbs, “Carbenes as catalysts for transformations of organometallic iron complexes,” Science, vol. 326, no. 5952, pp. 559–562, Oct. 2009.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Reiserer, S. Ritter, and G. Rempe, “Nondestructive detection of an optical photon,” Science, vol. 342, no. 6164, pp. 1349–1351, Dec. 2013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. P. Viana, E. Strano, P. Bordin, and M. Barthelemy, “The simplicity of planar networks,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 3495, Dec. 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Walkenbach, John Walkenbach’s Favorite Excel® 2010 Tips & Tricks. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

[1]

M. K. Zaidi, Ed., Wastewater Reuse–Risk Assessment, Decision-Making and Environmental Security. in NATO Science for Peace and Security Series. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. E. Sjölander, K. W. Boström, and K. Ögren, “Framing Chemical Risks in Sweden and Poland: Journalists’ Narratives and Media Texts,” in Regulating Chemical Risks: European and Global Challenges, J. Eriksson, M. Gilek, and C. Rudén, Eds., Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2010, pp. 45–69.

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 Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, “Complete Skeleton of Prehistoric Teenaged Girl Found in the Yucatan,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/complete-skeleton-prehistoric-teenaged-girl-found-yucatan/

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, “Truck Safety: The Safety of Longer Combination Vehicles Is Unknown,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, RCED-92-66, Mar. 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E. L. Allen, “Teacher Evaluation and Student Achievement in Elementary Education,” Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO, 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. Protess, J. Silver-Greenberg, and S. LaFRANIERE, “Kushner’s Legal Team In Election Investigation May Be Reconfigured,” New York Times, p. A12, Jun. 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 Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag.
ISSN (print)	0018-926X
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering