How to format your references using the IEEE Women in Engineering Magazine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Women in Engineering Magazine. 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. Parsch, “Evolution. The cost of being male,” Science, vol. 332, no. 6031, pp. 798–799, May 2011.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

V. Brovkin and M. Claussen, “Comment on ‘Climate-driven ecosystem succession in the Sahara: the past 6000 years,’” Science, vol. 322, no. 5906, pp. 1326; author reply 1326, Nov. 2008.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y. Yu, M. Nakano, and T. Ikeda, “Photomechanics: directed bending of a polymer film by light,” Nature, vol. 425, no. 6954, p. 145, Sep. 2003.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Furumoto et al., “A plastidial sodium-dependent pyruvate transporter,” Nature, vol. 476, no. 7361, pp. 472–475, Aug. 2011.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Billingsley, Essentials of Mechatronics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006.

An edited book

[1]

J. E. Clark, Ed., Albert Cleage Jr. and the Black Madonna and Child. in Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. Reisinger, “The Time-Dependent Defect Spectroscopy,” in Bias Temperature Instability for Devices and Circuits, T. Grasser, Ed., New York, NY: Springer, 2014, pp. 75–109.

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 Women in Engineering Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Possible Preserved Brain Matter Discovered Within 8,000 Year Old Skull,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/possible-preserved-brain-matter-discovered-within-8000-year-old-skull/

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, “Radio Frequencies: Earlier Coordination Could Improve System Use and Save Costs,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, NSIAD-87-42, Feb. 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. R. Wilkerson, “The Relationship Between Caring School Community Program Implementation and Elementary Student Achievement,” Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO, 2011.

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. Pilon, “American Withdraws After Positive Drug Test,” New York Times, p. D5, Jul. 14, 2012.

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 Women in Engineering Magazine
Abbreviation	IEEE Women Eng. Mag.
ISSN (print)	1942-065X
Scope	Education