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]

Prather MJ. Atmospheric science. An environmental experiment with H2? Science. 2003;302(5645):581–582.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ghalambor CK, Martin TE. Fecundity-survival trade-offs and parental risk-taking in birds. Science. 2001;292(5516):494–497.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Falenty A, Hansen TC, Kuhs WF. Formation and properties of ice XVI obtained by emptying a type sII clathrate hydrate. Nature. 2014;516(7530):231–233.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Brennan J, Lu CC, Norris DP, et al. Nodal signalling in the epiblast patterns the early mouse embryo. Nature. 2001;411(6840):965–969.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Wexler S, Shaffer J, Cotgreave A. The Big Book of Dashboards. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Lall SV, Freire M, Yuen B, et al., editors. Urban Land Markets: Improving Land Management for Successful Urbanization. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Yanling H, Hong W, Dehua L. Space-Time Variation Operator Set in Possibility Construction Space. In: Cai Z, Tong H, Kang Z, et al., editors. Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems: 5th International Symposium, ISICA 2010, Wuhan, China, October 22-24, 2010 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 29–36.

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]

Fang J. “Spooky Action at a Distance” Confirmed by New Quantum Experiment [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/einsteins-spooky-action-distance-confirmed-new-quantum-experiment/.

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. Higher Education: Issues Related to Law School Accreditation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007. Report No.: GAO-07-314. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ramirez BN. Middle School English Language Learner Electronic Media Usage and Its Relationship to Reading [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2012.

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]

Shear MD. ‘I’m President and They’re Not’: Trump Attack Brings Crowd to Its Feet. New York Times. 2017 Jul 1;A18.

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