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

Yablokov, A. (2014). Academy “reform” is stifling Russian science. Nature, 511(7507), 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pellettieri, J., & Seydoux, G. (2002). Anterior-posterior polarity in C. elegans and Drosophila--PARallels and differences. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5600), 1946–1950.

A journal article with 3 authors

Truog, R. D., Kesselheim, A. S., & Joffe, S. (2012). Research ethics. Paying patients for their tissue: the legacy of Henrietta Lacks. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6090), 37–38.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hurst, J. L., Payne, C. E., Nevison, C. M., Marie, A. D., Humphries, R. E., Robertson, D. H., … Beynon, R. J. (2001). Individual recognition in mice mediated by major urinary proteins. Nature, 414(6864), 631–634.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Plantin, J.-C. (2014). Participatory Mapping. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rajendram, R., Preedy, V. R., & Patel, V. B. (Eds.). (2015). Branched Chain Amino Acids in Clinical Nutrition: Volume 2. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Corradini, A., Heindel, T., Hermann, F., & König, B. (2006). Sesqui-Pushout Rewriting. In A. Corradini, H. Ehrig, U. Montanari, L. Ribeiro, & G. Rozenberg (Eds.), Graph Transformations: Third International Conference, ICGT 2006 Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, September 17-23, 2006 Proceedings (pp. 30–45). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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

Luntz, S. (2017, January 9). Vaporized Comets Or Asteroids Detected Around A Young Star. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/space/vaporized-comets-or-asteroids-detected-around-a-young-star/

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. (1999). Year 2000 Computing Challenge: OPM Has Made Progress on Business Continuity Planning (No. GGD-99-66). 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

Altassan, M. A. (2017). Employee Training to Increase Efficiency in the Saudi Private Sector (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Whiteside, K. (2016, September 1). Racing to Break Through Barriers. New York Times, p. SP1.

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