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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 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]

J. T. Erler, “Cancer: Disabling defences in the brain,” Nature, vol. 508, no. 7494, pp. 46–47, Apr. 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. W. Popp and L. E. Maquat, “RNA. A TRICK’n way to see the pioneer round of translation,” Science, vol. 347, no. 6228, pp. 1316–1317, Mar. 2015.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Kayukawa, K. Tateishi, and T. Shinoda, “Establishment of a versatile cell line for juvenile hormone signaling analysis in Tribolium castaneum,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 1570, 2013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. Lippert et al., “An exhaustive epistatic SNP association analysis on expanded Wellcome Trust data,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 1099, Jan. 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T. E. Southard, S. D. Marshall, and L. L. Bonner, Orthodontics in the Vertical Dimension. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

D. Gries, Multimedia Introduction to Programming Using Java. New York, NY: Springer, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Compagna, M. Marquardt, and I. Boblan, “Introducing a Methodological Approach to Evaluate HRI from a Genuine Sociological Point of View,” in Cultural Robotics: First International Workshop, CR 2015, Held as Part of IEEE RO-MAN 2015, Kobe, Japan, August 31, 2015. Revised Selected Papers, J. T. K. V. Koh, B. J. Dunstan, D. Silvera-Tawil, and M. Velonaki, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 55–64.

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 Letters.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, “Only 25 Hainan Gibbons Remain – What Next for the World’s Rarest Primate?,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/only-25-hainan-gibbons-remain-what-next-for-the-worlds-rarest-primate/

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, “Comments on H.R. 16443,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 094452, Jun. 1970.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. S. Domec, “Development, Characterization, and Resultant Properties of a Carbon, Boron, and Chromium Ternary Diffusion System,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 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]

L. S. Park, “Look on the Bright Side,” New York Times, p. BR18, Jan. 18, 2015.

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 Letters
ISSN (print)	2162-2337
Scope	Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering