How to format your references using the IEEE Wireless Communications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Wireless Communications. 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. V. Zayats, “Perspective: A glint of the future,” Nature, vol. 495, no. 7440, p. S7, Mar. 2013.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. P. Fry and P. Söderberg, “Lethal aggression in mobile forager bands and implications for the origins of war,” Science, vol. 341, no. 6143, pp. 270–273, Jul. 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. G. Patt, L. Ogallo, and M. Hellmuth, “Sustainability. Learning from 10 years of climate outlook forums in Africa,” Science, vol. 318, no. 5847, pp. 49–50, Oct. 2007.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

E. G. Blackman, A. Frank, J. A. Markiel, J. H. Thomas, and H. M. Van Horn, “Dynamos in asymptotic-giant-branch stars as the origin of magnetic fields shaping planetary nebulae,” Nature, vol. 409, no. 6819, pp. 485–487, Jan. 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. F. Basener, Topology and Its Applications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006.

An edited book

[1]

S. Tonchia, Performance Measurement: Linking Balanced Scorecard to Business Intelligence. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Wang, H. Wang, X. Tao, and J. Zhang, “Finding Weighted Positive Influence Dominating Set to Make Impact to Negatives: A Study on Online Social Networks in the New Millennium,” in ICTs and the Millennium Development Goals: A United Nations Perspective, H. Kaur and X. Tao, Eds., Boston, MA: Springer US, 2014, pp. 67–80.

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 Wireless Communications.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Awesome Time-Lapse Shows Five Weeks Of Stormy Weather In Just Five Minutes,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/heres-five-weeks-epic-stormy-weather-just-five-minutes/

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, “School Facilities: Profiles of School Condition by State,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, HEHS-96-148, Jun. 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

G. Bardhoshi, “The Relationship Between Assignment of Non-Counseling Duties and Burnout Among Professional School Counselors,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 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]

S. K. (nyt), “World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Foreign Interference Condemned,” New York Times, p. A6, Jul. 21, 2005.

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 Wireless Communications
Abbreviation	IEEE Wirel. Commun.
ISSN (print)	1536-1284
Scope	Computer Science Applications Electrical and Electronic Engineering