How to format your references using the AEUE - International Journal of Electronics and Communications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AEUE - International Journal of Electronics and 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

[1]

Bishop DVM. Cerebral asymmetry and language development: cause, correlate, or consequence? Science 2013;340:1230531.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Landisman CE, Connors BW. Long-term modulation of electrical synapses in the mammalian thalamus. Science 2005;310:1809–13.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ball LT, Lloyd-Jones GC, Russell CA. Gold-catalyzed direct arylation. Science 2012;337:1644–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zhang X, Guo G, Ji C, Huang K, Zha C, Wang Y, et al. Efficient thermolysis route to monodisperse Cu₂ZnSnS₄ nanocrystals with controlled shape and structure. Sci Rep 2014;4:5086.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Center for Chemical Process Safety. Inherently Safer Chemical Processes. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Gray WG. Introduction to the Thermodynamically Constrained Averaging Theory for Porous Medium Systems. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Han X, Oliver CD, Ge J, Guo Q, Kou X. Managing Forest Stand Structures to Enhance Conservation of the Amur Tiger (Panthera tigris altaica). In: Stanturf J, Madsen P, Lamb D, editors. A Goal-Oriented Approach to Forest Landscape Restoration, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012, p. 93–128.

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 AEUE - International Journal of Electronics and Communications.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. Large Hadron Collider Could Detect Extra Dimensions. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/large-hadron-collider-might-reveal-extra-dimensions/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Aviation Safety and Security: Challenges to Implementing the Recommendations of the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Yoon J. Jan Radzynski’s Canto (1981): An Introductory View of Its Genre, Style, and Form, with Suggestions for Performance. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University, 2012.

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]

Marx L. Going Into Marriage With Eyes Wide Open. New York Times 2015:ST17.

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	AEUE - International Journal of Electronics and Communications
Abbreviation	Int. J. Electron. Commun.
ISSN (print)	1434-8411
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering