How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques citation style

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

A. Finkbeiner, “JASON past, present, and future: the world’s most independent defence science advisers,” Nature, vol. 477, no. 7365, pp. 397–399, Sep. 2011.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E. Fehr and U. Fischbacher, “The nature of human altruism,” Nature, vol. 425, no. 6960, pp. 785–791, Oct. 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. J. Neale, J. Pan, and S. Keeney, “Endonucleolytic processing of covalent protein-linked DNA double-strand breaks,” Nature, vol. 436, no. 7053, pp. 1053–1057, Aug. 2005.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. N. Scanlan, J. Offer, N. Zitzmann, and R. A. Dwek, “Exploiting the defensive sugars of HIV-1 for drug and vaccine design,” Nature, vol. 446, no. 7139, pp. 1038–1045, Apr. 2007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. Cox, An Introduction to LTE. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

J. Zschocke, K. M. Gibson, G. Brown, E. Morava, and V. Peters, Eds., JIMD Reports - Case and Research Reports, 2012/5, vol. 8. in JIMD Reports, vol. 8. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

N. Oren, “Argument Schemes for Normative Practical Reasoning,” in Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation: Second International Workshop, TAFA 2013, Beijing, China, August 3-5, 2013, Revised Selected papers, E. Black, S. Modgil, and N. Oren, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2014, pp. 63–78.

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 Microwave Theory and Techniques.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, “One Third Of Humanity Can’t See The Milky Way In The Night Sky,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/one-third-of-humanity-cant-see-the-milky-way-in-the-night-sky/

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, “Tribal Transportation: Better Data Could Improve Road Management and Inform Indian Student Attendance Strategies,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-17-423, May 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. V. Irving, “Occupational Stress and Law Enforcement Officer Significant Relationships,” 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. L. Dudziak, “Obama’s Nixonian Precedent,” New York Times, p. A29, Mar. 22, 2013.

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 Microwave Theory and Techniques
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech.
ISSN (print)	0018-9480
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Condensed Matter Physics Radiation