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. Sorenson E. Gates of opportunity. Nature 2007; 447(7143): 502–503.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Wu C-C, Chen C-C. The symmetry detection mechanisms are color selective. Scientific reports 2014; 4: 3893.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Mora C, Danovaro R, Loreau M. Alternative hypotheses to explain why biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships are concave-up in some natural ecosystems but concave-down in manipulative experiments. Scientific reports 2014; 4: 5427.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Choi JS, Kim J-S, Byun I-S, et al. Friction anisotropy-driven domain imaging on exfoliated monolayer graphene. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2011; 333(6042): 607–610.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hannon L, Clift J. General Hospital Care for People with Learning Disabilities. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.: West Sussex, UK, 2010.

An edited book

1. Tippins DJ, Mueller MP, Eijck M van, Adams JD eds. Cultural Studies and Environmentalism: The Confluence of EcoJustice, Place-based (Science) Education, and Indigenous Knowledge Systems. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Yun G, Zhao L. Stochastic Discrete Damage Simulations of Laminate Composites. In Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution, Volume 8: Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Beese AM, Zehnder AT, Xia S (eds). Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; 35–43.

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. Andrew D. Running Makes You Smarter – Here’s How. 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. Women in STEM Research: Better Data and Information Sharing Could Improve Oversight of Federal Grant-making and Title IX Compliance. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Miller CK. Incidence and Characterization of Oral Motor, Pharyngeal, and Cervical Esophageal Swallowing Dysfunction in Pediatric Patients with Chiari 1 Malformation. 2006.

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. Brantley B. Sam Shepard, Whose Plays Forged a New Frontier, Dies at 73. New York Times. July 31, 2017:A1.

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