How to format your references using the IET Wireless Sensor Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IET Wireless Sensor Systems. 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	Download the output style file
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

Pollitzer, E.: ‘Biology: Cell sex matters’Nature, 2013, 500, (7460), pp. 23–24.

A journal article with 2 authors

Glimcher, P.W., Rustichini, A.: ‘Neuroeconomics: the consilience of brain and decision’Science, 2004, 306, (5695), pp. 447–452.

A journal article with 3 authors

Branch, T.A., Hively, D.J., Hilborn, R.: ‘Is the ocean food provision index biased?’Nature, 2013, 495, (7442), pp. E5-6; discussion E7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kovalchuk, Y., Hanse, E., Kafitz, K.W., Konnerth, A.: ‘Postsynaptic Induction of BDNF-Mediated Long-Term Potentiation’Science, 2002, 295, (5560), pp. 1729–1734.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Camarillo, G., García-Martín, M.A.: ‘The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)’ (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2006)

An edited book

Boulabiar, K., Buskes, G., Triki, A. (Eds.): ‘Positivity’ (Birkhäuser, 2007)

A chapter in an edited book

Rowlett, R.S.: ‘Structure and Catalytic Mechanism of β-Carbonic Anhydrases’, in Frost, S.C., McKenna, R. (Eds.): ‘Carbonic Anhydrase: Mechanism, Regulation, Links to Disease, and Industrial Applications’ (Springer Netherlands, 2014), pp. 53–76

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 IET Wireless Sensor Systems.

Blog post

Luntz, S.: ‘Sea Level Rise Has Been Miscalculated’, accessed October 2018

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

Government Accountability Office: ‘Issues Concerning the Future Operation of the Space Transportation System’ (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gilbert, S.A.: ‘Succession Planning Relating to the Millennial Generation in Private Four-Year Universities’. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 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

Kelly, D.A.: ‘Calling From Abroad at Reasonable Rates’New York Times, 2006, p. 56.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2, 4].
This sentence cites four references [2, 4, 6, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	IET Wireless Sensor Systems
Abbreviation	IET Wirel. Sens. Syst.
ISSN (print)	2043-6386
Scope	Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering