You can find detailesi chapter 4 of Matthaei, Young, Jones: Microwave Filters, Impedance-Matching Networks, and Coupling Structures, McGraw-Hill, New York 1964 (or any later issue).
You could also use a design/simulator tool such as Tina http://www.tina.com/ It has a filter designer built in and then you could simulate the performance with your other components.