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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEICE Transactions on Electronics. 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]

D. Goldston, “The climate to get things done,” Nature, vol.458, no. 7234, p.21, Mar. 2009.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. Conradt and T. J. Roper, “Group decision-making in animals,” Nature, vol.421, no. 6919, pp.155–158, Jan. 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. P. Sachs, R. F. Anderson, and S. J. Lehman, “Glacial surface temperatures of the southeast Atlantic Ocean,” Science, vol.293, no. 5537, pp.2077–2079, Sep. 2001.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W. Wang, W. Zhang, J. Gu, Q. Liu, T. Deng, D. Zhang, and H.-Q. Lin, “Design of a structure with low incident and viewing angle dependence inspired by Morpho butterflies,” Sci. Rep., vol.3, p.3427, Dec. 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Chadha and L. Kant, Policy-Driven Mobile Ad hoc Network Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2007.

An edited book

[1]

P. Wojtaszek, Ed., Mechanical Integration of Plant Cells and Plants, First., vol.9. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Ester, J. F. Göhner, and J. Tilmes, “Man the Irrational Animal?,” in Ernest Sosa: Targeting His Philosophy, A. Bahr and M. Seidel, eds. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016, pp.53–66.

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 Electronics.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, “California Just Banned SeaWorld From Breeding Captive Orcas,” IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/california-ban-seaworld-breeding-captive-orca/, 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, “Information Technology: Health Care Financing Administration’s Budget Process Needs Improvement,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, IMTEC-89-31, Aug. 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Moreno, “Mother-child relationships: Females behind bars and their children,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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]

J. Koblin, “Hulu Adds Channels to Streaming Service,” New York Times, p.B2, 01-Nov-2016.

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 Electronics
ISSN (print)	0916-8524
ISSN (online)	1745-1353
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials