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]

G. E. Robinson, “Development. Sociogenomics takes flight,” Science, vol.297, no. 5579, pp.204–205, Jul. 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Prokopenko and J. T. Lizier, “Transfer entropy and transient limits of computation,” Sci. Rep., vol.4, p.5394, Jun. 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. J. Turk, T. Abel, and B. O’Shea, “The formation of Population III binaries from cosmological initial conditions,” Science, vol.325, no. 5940, pp.601–605, Jul. 2009.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. Choudhary, C. Kumar, F. Gnad, M. L. Nielsen, M. Rehman, T. C. Walther, J. V. Olsen, and M. Mann, “Lysine acetylation targets protein complexes and co-regulates major cellular functions,” Science, vol.325, no. 5942, pp.834–840, Aug. 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

V. Woolf, The Years. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

T. M. Harwood, Self-Help in Mental Health: A Critical Review. Springer, New York, NY, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Gillibert and F. Wehrung, “Congruence-Permutable, Congruence-Preserving Extensions of Lattices,” in From Objects to Diagrams for Ranges of Functors, F. Wehrung, ed. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011, pp.117–129.

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]

J. Davis, “Researchers Link Humans Brains Allowing One To Guess What The Other Is Thinking,” IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/researchers-link-humans-brains-allowing-one-guess-what-other-thinking/, 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, “NASA Property: Improving Management of Government Equipment Provided to Contractors,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, NSIAD-93-191, Sep. 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. M. Siani, “Costs and benefits of cooperative infant care in wild golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia),” Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 2009.

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]

S. Hartman, “A New Life for Refugees, and the City They Adopted,” New York Times, p.A12, 11-Aug-2014.

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