How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility citation style

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

W. J. Mitchell, “Beyond the ivory tower. Constructing complexity in the digital age,” Science, vol. 303, no. 5663, pp. 1472–1473, Mar. 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E. L. MacLean and B. Hare, “Evolution. Dogs hijack the human bonding pathway,” Science, vol. 348, no. 6232, pp. 280–281, Apr. 2015.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

W. F. Martin, F. L. Sousa, and N. Lane, “Evolution. Energy at life’s origin,” Science, vol. 344, no. 6188, pp. 1092–1093, Jun. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Levitus, J. I. Antonov, J. Wang, T. L. Delworth, K. W. Dixon, and A. J. Broccoli, “Anthropogenic warming of Earth’s climate system,” Science, vol. 292, no. 5515, pp. 267–270, Apr. 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W. Caferro, Contesting the Renaissance. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

A. Greiner, Public Debt, Sustainability and Economic Growth: Theory and Empirics. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

U. A. K. Betz, N. Camacho, M. Gerards, and S. Stremersch, “Grassroots Innovation: A Promising Innovation Paradigm for Pharmaceutical Companies,” in Innovation and Marketing in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Emerging Practices, Research, and Policies, M. Ding, J. Eliashberg, and S. Stremersch, Eds., in International Series in Quantitative Marketing. , New York, NY: Springer, 2014, pp. 119–148.

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 Electromagnetic Compatibility.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, “Baby Born To Woman Using Her Mother’s Transplanted Womb,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/baby-born-woman-using-her-mothers-transplanted-womb/

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, “Curriculum Case Studies Are of Questionable Quality but Helped Precollege Curriculum Activities,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, HRD-77-46, May 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. J. Hayen, “Canine-Assisted Psychotherapy: Finding the Way Back to Our Animal Soul,” Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA, 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. J. de la MERCED, “B Capital Group Names Start-Up Star Its Chairman,” New York Times, p. B4, Oct. 23, 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 Electromagnetic Compatibility
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Electromagn. Compat.
ISSN (print)	0018-9375
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Condensed Matter Physics Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics