How to format your references using the IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

D. Gershon, “Quantum dots show their true colours,” Nature, vol. 432, no. 7014, p. 247, Nov. 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Day and R. G. Morris, “Memory consolidation and NMDA receptors: discrepancy between genetic and pharmacological approaches,” Science, vol. 293, no. 5531, p. 755, Aug. 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

V. Panday, W. M. B. Tiest, and A. M. L. Kappers, “Integration of length and curvature in haptic perception,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 3856, Jan. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

N. M. Ferguson, A. C. Ghani, C. A. Donnelly, T. J. Hagenaars, and R. M. Anderson, “Estimating the human health risk from possible BSE infection of the British sheep flock,” Nature, vol. 415, no. 6870, pp. 420–424, Jan. 2002.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Vegh, Web Development with the Mac®. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

[1]

R. L. Davis, Pro SQL Server 2008 Mirroring. Berkeley, CA: Apress, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. I. Christensen and G. D. Hager, “Sensing and Estimation,” in Springer Handbook of Robotics, B. Siciliano and O. Khatib, Eds., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008, pp. 87–107.

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 IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, “The Inside Of Ancient Fossil Turds Visualized In Impressive 3D,” IFLScience.

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, “Library Services for Those with Disabilities: Additional Steps Needed to Ease Access to Services and Modernize Technology,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-16-355, Apr. 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. A. Marquez, “Examining coping skills used to deal with daily stressors of law enforcement,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2009.

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]

L. Greenhouse, “Justices Hear Arguments Over Whether Foreigners Have Reciprocal Rights in the U.S,” New York Times, p. A19, Mar. 30, 2006.

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], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal title	IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters
Abbreviation	IEEE Microw. Wirel. Compon. Lett.
ISSN (print)	1531-1309
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Condensed Matter Physics