How to format your references using the Wireless Networks citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Wireless Networks. 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

Buffett, B. A. (2003). Geophysics. The thermal state of Earth’s core. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5613), 1675–1677.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dubrovinskaia, N., & Dubrovinsky, L. (2013). Controversy about ultrahard nanotwinned cBN. Nature, 502(7472), E1-2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hernlund, J. W., Thomas, C., & Tackley, P. J. (2005). A doubling of the post-perovskite phase boundary and structure of the Earth’s lowermost mantle. Nature, 434(7035), 882–886.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zhu, Y. F., Dai, Q. Q., Zhao, M., & Jiang, Q. (2013). Physicochemical insight into gap openings in graphene. Scientific reports, 3, 1524.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perera, A. H., & Buse, L. J. (2014). Ecology of Wildfire Residuals in Boreal Forests. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

German Council, of Economic Experts. (2008). Dual Income Tax: A Proposal for Reforming Corporate and Personal Income Tax in Germany. (Max-Planck-Institute, for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law & Centre for European Economic Research, (ZEW), Eds.) (Vol. 39). Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD.

A chapter in an edited book

Fairman, D., Chigas, D., McClintock, E., & Drager, N. (2012). Coalition-Building and Process Strategies. In D. Chigas, E. McClintock, & N. Drager (Eds.), Negotiating Public Health in a Globalized World: Global Health Diplomacy in Action (pp. 63–79). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Networks.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2017, March 31). Leaded Gasoline Exposure Is Everything We Feared. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/brain/leaded-gasoline-exposure-is-everything-we-feared/

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

Government Accountability Office. (2005). Telecommunications: Direct Broadcast Satellite Subscribership Has Grown Rapidly, but Varies across Different Types of Markets (No. GAO-05-257). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Taylor, W. A. (2010). Every citizen a soldier: The U.S. Army’s campaign for universal military training following World War II (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Cooper, M. (2017, October 3). Lincoln Center Scraps $500 Million Renovation. New York Times, p. 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 Networks
ISSN (print)	1022-0038
ISSN (online)	1572-8196
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Information Systems Electrical and Electronic Engineering