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

Servick, K. (2014). Top heart lab comes under fire. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6194), 254.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jia, T., & Pósfai, M. (2014). Connecting core percolation and controllability of complex networks. Scientific reports, 4, 5379.

A journal article with 3 authors

Krauss, L. M., Dodelson, S., & Meyer, S. (2010). Primordial gravitational waves and cosmology. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5981), 989–992.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wang, C., He, Q., Halim, U., Liu, Y., Zhu, E., Lin, Z., … Duan, X. (2018). Monolayer atomic crystal molecular superlattices. Nature, 555(7695), 231–236.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Olsen, D. (2015). The Lean Product Playbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Small, W., & Woloschak, G. E. (Eds.). (2006). Radiation Toxicity: A Practical Guide (Vol. 128). Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Gorgulho, A. M. S. B. S., Neves, R. F. M. F., & Horta, N. C. G. (2013). System Validation. In R. F. M. F. Neves & N. C. G. Horta (Eds.), Intelligent Financial Portfolio Composition based on Evolutionary Computation Strategies (pp. 57–68). 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

Andrew, E. (2015, August 7). The Future Of Rail Travel, And Why It Doesn’t Look Like Hyperloop. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/technology/future-rail-travel-and-why-it-doesn-t-look-hyperloop/

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. (1989). Federal Research: Information on Site Selection Process for DOE’s Super Collider (No. RCED-90-33BR). 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

Long, J. J. (2012). Comparison of health-promoting lifestyles in adult patients with and without primary care provider continuity (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Vecsey, G. (2010, September 13). Empty Gray Gives Way to Blues and Boos, Just Like Before. New York Times, p. D7.

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