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

Fuhrer, M.S.: ‘Journal club. A physicist peels back the layers of excitement about graphene’Nature, 2009, 459, (7250), p. 1037.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grewal, S.I.S., Elgin, S.C.R.: ‘Transcription and RNA interference in the formation of heterochromatin’Nature, 2007, 447, (7143), pp. 399–406.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu, X., Su, Y., Fan, Z.H.: ‘Cotinine concentration in serum correlates with tobacco smoke-induced emphysema in mice’Sci. Rep., 2014, 4, p. 3864.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Medalia, O., Weber, I., Frangakis, A.S., Nicastro, D., Gerisch, G., Baumeister, W.: ‘Macromolecular architecture in eukaryotic cells visualized by cryoelectron tomography’Science, 2002, 298, (5596), pp. 1209–1213.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lueder, E.: ‘3D Displays’ (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2011)

An edited book

Balula, A.: ‘Evaluation of Online Higher Education: Learning, Interaction and Technology’ (Springer International Publishing, 2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Yao, X., Wu, L., Zheng, W.X.: ‘Filtering of Markovian Jump 2-D Systems’, in Wu, L., Zheng, W.X. (Eds.): ‘Filtering and Control of Stochastic Jump Hybrid Systems’ (Springer International Publishing, 2016), pp. 67–88

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

Davis, J.: ‘New Prostate Test Twice As Likely To Identify Cancer As Traditional Technique’, 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: ‘Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Severity of Problem Calls for Strong Leadership and Effective Partnerships’ (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Smith, K.A.: ‘Impact of animal assisted therapy reading instruction on reading performance of homeschooled students’. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, 2010

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

Poniewozik, J.: ‘In Testimony, a Reboot of Classic TV Hearings Past’New York Times, 2017, p. A21.

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

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