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]

Macilwain C. Stanford accelerator takes lead in race to quantify CP violation. Nature. 2000;403(6770):586–587.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ito T, Handa H. Myeloid disease: Another action of a thalidomide derivative. Nature. 2015;523(7559):167–168.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Marusic I, Mathis R, Hutchins N. Predictive model for wall-bounded turbulent flow. Science. 2010;329(5988):193–196.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Li S-Z, Song Y, Zhang H-H, et al. UbcH10 overexpression increases carcinogenesis and blocks ALLN susceptibility in colorectal cancer. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6910.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Windom CA Sr, Gaidhani H, Fontana A. Virtualizing. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Eijk RM van, Huget M-P, Dignum F, editors. Agent Communication: International Workshop on Agent Communication, AC 2004, New York, NY, USA, July 19, 2004, Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Wolff MPH. Banach Spaces and Linear Operators. In: Loeb PA, Wolff MPH, editors. Nonstandard Analysis for the Working Mathematician. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015. p. 107–162.

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]

Andrew E. Spectacular Solar Eruption Caught On Camera [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/spectacular-solar-eruption-caught-camera/.

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. Transportation Infrastructure: States Benefit From Block Grant Flexibility. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990. Report No.: RCED-90-126. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Kim H. Empathy in the Early Childhood Classroom: Exploring Teachers’ Perceptions, Understanding and Practices [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana 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

[1]

Belson K, Pilon M. Gatlin, Continuing Comeback from Ban, Earns Return to the Olympics. New York Times. 2012 Jun 25;D8.

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