How to format your references using the Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC). 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. Smaglik P. Clearing your own path. Nature 2002; 420(6914): 3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Caicedo A, Roper SD. Taste receptor cells that discriminate between bitter stimuli. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2001; 291(5508): 1557–1560.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Pearson PD, Moje E, Greenleaf C. Literacy and science: each in the service of the other. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2010; 328(5977): 459–463.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Tyzio R, Cossart R, Khalilov I, et al. Maternal oxytocin triggers a transient inhibitory switch in GABA signaling in the fetal brain during delivery. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2006; 314(5806): 1788–1792.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kupka HJ. Transitions in Molecular Systems. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2010.

An edited book

1. Calude CS, Hagiya M, Morita K, Rozenberg G, Timmis J eds. Unconventional Computation: 9th International Conference, US 2010, Tokyo, Japan, June 21-25, 2010. Proceedings. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Davis M. Diophantine Equations and Computation. In Unconventional Computation: 8th International Conference, UC 2009, Ponta Delgada, Portugal, September 7-11, 2009. Proceedings, Calude CS, Costa JF, Dershowitz N, Freire E, Rozenberg G (eds). Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; 4–5.

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 Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing.

Blog post

1. Hamilton K. Safe And Ethical Ways To Edit The Human Genome. IFLScience 2017.

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. Economic Espionage: Information on Threat From U.S. Allies. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Horton CR. Financial crisis within the nonprofit sector. 2013.

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. Jenks S. Troubled Vision. New York Times. June 6, 2017:F7.

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	Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
Abbreviation	Wirel. Commun. Mob. Comput.
ISSN (print)	1530-8669
ISSN (online)	1530-8677
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Information Systems Electrical and Electronic Engineering