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]

N. Blow, “Glycobiology: A spoonful of sugar,” Nature, vol. 457, no. 7229, pp. 617–620, Jan. 2009.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. C. Riser and K. S. Johnson, “Net production of oxygen in the subtropical ocean,” Nature, vol. 451, no. 7176, pp. 323–325, Jan. 2008.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H. Sawamura, K. Shima, and J. Tanji, “Numerical representation for action in the parietal cortex of the monkey,” Nature, vol. 415, no. 6874, pp. 918–922, Feb. 2002.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Li et al., “Antibacterial activity of large-area monolayer graphene film manipulated by charge transfer,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 4359, Mar. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Jaffe, Flip the Funnel. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

[1]

P. Q. Nguyen and E. Oswald, Eds., Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2014: 33rd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 11-15, 2014. Proceedings, vol. 8441. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8441. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. N. Ghazi, K. Petersen, and J. Börstler, “Heterogeneous Systems Testing Techniques: An Exploratory Survey,” in Software Quality. Software and Systems Quality in Distributed and Mobile Environments: 7th International Conference, SWQD 2015, Vienna, Austria, January 20-23, 2015, Proceedings, D. Winkler, S. Biffl, and J. Bergsmann, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. , Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015, pp. 67–85.

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]

E. Andrew, “Chemical Messengers: How Hormones Make Us Feel Hungry And Full,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/chemical-messengers-how-hormones-make-us-feel-hungry-and-full/

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, “International Space Station: Approaches for Ensuring Utilization through 2020 Are Reasonable but Should Be Revisited as NASA Gains More Knowledge of On-Orbit Performance,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-12-162, Dec. 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Ahn, “Student Perception of Language Achievement and Learner Autonomy in a Blended Korean Language Course: The Case Study of Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center,” Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ, 2017.

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. Billard, “Scouting Report,” New York Times, p. E5, Apr. 22, 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 Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag.
ISSN (print)	0018-926X
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering