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]

Taylor R. Hydrology: When wells run dry. Nature. 2014;516(7530):179–180.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gelb MH, Hol WGJ. Parasitology. Drugs to combat tropical protozoan parasites. Science. 2002;297(5580):343–344.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lu K, Lu L, Suresh S. Strengthening materials by engineering coherent internal boundaries at the nanoscale. Science. 2009;324(5925):349–352.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Cohen I, Navarro V, Clemenceau S, et al. On the origin of interictal activity in human temporal lobe epilepsy in vitro. Science. 2002;298(5597):1418–1421.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Cooney KA, Chappell JR, Callan RJ, et al. Veterinary Euthanasia Techniques. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Pickering G, Gibson S, editors. Pain, Emotion and Cognition: A Complex Nexus. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Canelas AML, Neves RFMF, Horta NCG. Conclusions and Future Work. In: Neves RFMF, Horta NCG, editors. Investment Strategies Optimization based on a SAX-GA Methodology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 79–81.

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]

Carpineti A. NASA Probes Reveal Current In Earth’s Radiation Belts Is Not As Expected. 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. Noncitizen Student Loan Defaults. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983. Report No.: HRD-83-29. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Miles CS. Elicitation of a Program’s Behaviors [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2015.

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]

Kishkovsky S. Maya Plisetskaya, Fluid Soviet Ballerina, Dies at 89. New York Times. 2015 May 4;A21.

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