How to format your references using the Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications. 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]

Vasilyev M. SIGNAL PROCESSING. Matched filtering of ultrashort pulses. Science. 2015;350:1314–1315.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Sipp D, Turner L. Stem cells. U.S. regulation of stem cells as medical products. Science. 2012;338:1296–1297.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Acquisti A, Brandimarte L, Loewenstein G. Privacy and human behavior in the age of information. Science. 2015;347:509–514.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Nagyvary J, DiVerdi JA, Owen NL, et al. Wood used by Stradivari and Guarneri. Nature. 2006;444:565.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Solomon R. The Art of Client Service. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Mizio RD, Scaglione M, editors. Ileo meccanico dell’intestino tenue: Aspetti TC e correlazioni eco-radiografiche. Milano: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Chakraborty J, Bligh PL. Evaluation of Video Game Interfaces. In: Stephanidis C, editor. Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction Design for All and eInclusion: 6th International Conference, UAHCI 2011, Held as Part of HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 30–35.

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 Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. France Becomes First Country To Ban Plastic Cups, Plates, And Cutlery. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Environmental Protection: Solving NASA’s Current Problems Requires Agencywide Emphasis. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991. Report No.: NSIAD-91-146. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Kopaygorodsky E. Mathematical Model of Ultra-Rapid PSA [Doctoral dissertation]. [Cincinnati, OH]: University of Cincinnati; 2001.

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]

Vecsey G. When Loss Means Disappointment, Not Disaster. New York Times. 2010 Jun 26;D2.

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 [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications
Abbreviation	J. Electromagn. Waves Appl.
ISSN (print)	0920-5071
ISSN (online)	1569-3937
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials General Physics and Astronomy