How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Magnetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. 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]

R. P. Kirshner, “Throwing light on dark energy,” Science, vol. 300, no. 5627, pp. 1914–1918, Jun. 2003.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

F. Wu-Baer and R. Baer, “Effect of DNA damage on a BRCA1 complex,” Nature, vol. 414, no. 6859, p. 36, Nov. 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Kim, P. Wong, and P. A. Coulombe, “A keratin cytoskeletal protein regulates protein synthesis and epithelial cell growth,” Nature, vol. 441, no. 7091, pp. 362–365, May 2006.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Amanullah et al., “Cell signalling: cell survival and a Gadd45-factor deficiency,” Nature, vol. 424, no. 6950, pp. 741; discussion 742, Aug. 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. W. Halpin and B. A. Senior, Financial Management and Accounting Fundamentals for Construction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009.

An edited book

[1]

A. K. Regis, Ed., The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds: A Critical Edition. in Genders and Sexualities in History. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Falzon and E. Bodden, “Dynamically Provisioning Isolation in Hierarchical Architectures,” in Information Security: 18th International Conference, ISC 2015, Trondheim, Norway, September 9-11, 2015, Proceedings, J. Lopez and C. J. Mitchell, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015, pp. 83–101.

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 Transactions on Magnetics.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, “Two New Species Of Adorable Clown Frogs Discovered In The Amazon,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/two-new-species-of-adorable-clown-frogs-discovered-in-the-amazon/

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, “Homeland Security: DHS Enterprise Architecture Continues to Evolve but Improvements Needed,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-07-564, May 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. M. Brooks, “Applying Andragogical Principles to Real-Time Embedded Parental Coaching When Helping Their Children with Hearing Loss to Talk,” Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO, 2017.

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]

M. D. Shear and S. G. Stolberg, “Senator Goes From Trump Target to Cheerleader as Some in G.O.P. Bolt,” New York Times, p. A16, Oct. 26, 2017.

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 Transactions on Magnetics
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Magn.
ISSN (print)	0018-9464
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials