How to format your references using the IEEE Women in Engineering Magazine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Women in Engineering Magazine. 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]

M. Balter, “SPONGIFORM DISEASE: Experts Downplay New vCJD Fears,” Science, vol. 289, no. 5485, pp. 1663b–6b, Sep. 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Gillon and D. Yakir, “Influence of carbonic anhydrase activity in terrestrial vegetation on the 18O content of atmospheric CO2,” Science, vol. 291, no. 5513, pp. 2584–2587, Mar. 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H. J. Parker, M. E. Bronner, and R. Krumlauf, “A Hox regulatory network of hindbrain segmentation is conserved to the base of vertebrates,” Nature, vol. 514, no. 7523, pp. 490–493, Oct. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. T. Pierce-Shimomura, S. Faumont, M. R. Gaston, B. J. Pearson, and S. R. Lockery, “The homeobox gene lim-6 is required for distinct chemosensory representations in C. elegans,” Nature, vol. 410, no. 6829, pp. 694–698, Apr. 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. H. Relethford, 50 Great Myths of Human Evolution. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017.

An edited book

[1]

D. A. Papa, Multi-Objective Optimization in Physical Synthesis of Integrated Circuits, vol. 166. in Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol. 166. New York, NY: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Saliou, M. Théaudin, C. Join-Lambert Vincent, and R. Souillard-Scemama, “Watershed Infarction,” in Practical Guide to Neurovascular Emergencies, M. Theaudin, C. Join-Lambert Vincent, and R. Souillard-Scemama, Eds., Paris: Springer, 2014, pp. 69–75.

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 Women in Engineering Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Harambe The Gorilla Put Zoo In A Lose-Lose Situation – By Being Himself,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/harambe-gorilla-put-zoo-lose-lose-situation-being-himself/

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, “Hubble Space Telescope,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, NSIAD-93-247R, Jul. 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Sheah, “Reading Dreams: Representation of Dreams Through Artists’ Books,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2015.

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, “Court to Rule on What Constitutes Employer Retaliation,” New York Times, p. A23, Dec. 06, 2005.

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 Women in Engineering Magazine
Abbreviation	IEEE Women Eng. Mag.
ISSN (print)	1942-065X
Scope	Education