How to format your references using the Wireless Personal Communications citation style

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

Moorcock, M. (2000). Through the shaving mirror. Nature, 407(6803), 455.

A journal article with 2 authors

Freeman, M. R., & Choi, B. C. (2001). Advances in magnetic microscopy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5546), 1484–1488.

A journal article with 3 authors

Santiago, J., Henzler, C., & Hothorn, M. (2013). Molecular mechanism for plant steroid receptor activation by somatic embryogenesis co-receptor kinases. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6148), 889–892.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Baena-González, E., Rolland, F., Thevelein, J. M., & Sheen, J. (2007). A central integrator of transcription networks in plant stress and energy signalling. Nature, 448(7156), 938–942.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rees, P. A. (2011). An Introduction to Zoo Biology and Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Assadi, F. (2016). Pediatric Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy: Principles and Practice. (F. Ghane Sharbaf, Ed.) (1st ed. 2016.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Simoen, E., & Lombaert, G. (2016). Bayesian Parameter Estimation. In E. Chatzi & C. Papadimitriou (Eds.), Identification Methods for Structural Health Monitoring (pp. 89–115). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Personal Communications.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, April 2). Caloric Restriction Increases Lifespan In Monkeys. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/caloric-restriction-increases-lifespan-monkeys/

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. (1997). Land Management Systems: BLM Faces Risks in Completing the Automated Land and Mineral Record System (No. AIMD-97-42). 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

Kinney, C. E. (2009). Realtime controller tuning for periodic disturbance rejection with application to active noise control (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

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

Crow, K. (2001, March 18). The Best and the Brightest Under Fire. New York Times, p. 141.

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 Personal Communications
Abbreviation	Wirel. Pers. Commun.
ISSN (print)	0929-6212
ISSN (online)	1572-834X
Scope	Computer Science Applications Electrical and Electronic Engineering