How to format your references using the IEICE Transactions on Communications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEICE Transactions on 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	Download the output style file
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]

J. Kaiser, “TOXICOLOGY: Panel Urges Further Study of Biotech Corn,” Science, vol.290, no. 5498, p.1867a, Dec. 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Y. Karklin and M. S. Lewicki, “Emergence of complex cell properties by learning to generalize in natural scenes,” Nature, vol.457, no. 7225, pp.83–86, Jan. 2009.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. C. McElwain, J. Wade-Murphy, and S. P. Hesselbo, “Changes in carbon dioxide during an oceanic anoxic event linked to intrusion into Gondwana coals,” Nature, vol.435, no. 7041, pp.479–482, May 2005.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Matthey, J. G. Wang, S. Wendt, J. Matthiesen, R. Schaub, E. Laegsgaard, B. Hammer, and F. Besenbacher, “Enhanced bonding of gold nanoparticles on oxidized TiO2(110),” Science, vol.315, no. 5819, pp.1692–1696, Mar. 2007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Cherian, Energy and Global Climate Change. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

I. Wagner, T. Bratteteig, and D. Stuedahl, Eds., Exploring Digital Design: Multi-Disciplinary Design Practices. Springer, London, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T. Sharma, S. Low, and P. J. Foster, “The Classification of Primary Angle-Closure Glaucoma,” in Glaucoma, F. Grehn and R. Stamper, eds. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009, pp.41–48.

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 IEICE Transactions on Communications.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, “Citizen Scientists Bring Astronomical History To Light,” IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/space/citizens-scientists-bring-astronomical-history-to-light/, accessed Oct. 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, “B-2 Bomber: Contract Structure and Selected Provisions,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, NSIAD-90-230FS, Aug. 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Kalinec-Craig, “A case study of four Latina/o pre-service teachers in learning to teach mathematics for understanding and integrate a child’s out-of-school mathematical knowledge and experiences,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 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]

J. Barron, “In East Hampton, an Airport Is Viewed as a Roaring, Round-the-Clock Nuisance,” New York Times, p.A16, 04-Jul-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 [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	IEICE Transactions on Communications
ISSN (print)	0916-8516
ISSN (online)	1745-1345
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Software Electrical and Electronic Engineering