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]

C. A. Klein, “Selection and adaptation during metastatic cancer progression,” Nature, vol.501, no. 7467, pp.365–372, Sep. 2013.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Wordsworth and R. Pierrehumbert, “Hydrogen-nitrogen greenhouse warming in Earth’s early atmosphere,” Science, vol.339, no. 6115, pp.64–67, Jan. 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. T. Wade, D. B. Hall, and K. Struhl, “The transcription factor Ifh1 is a key regulator of yeast ribosomal protein genes,” Nature, vol.432, no. 7020, pp.1054–1058, Dec. 2004.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Sun, C. Patoine, A. Abu-Khalil, J. Visvader, E. Sum, T. J. Cherry, S. H. Orkin, D. H. Geschwind, and C. A. Walsh, “Early asymmetry of gene transcription in embryonic human left and right cerebral cortex,” Science, vol.308, no. 5729, pp.1794–1798, Jun. 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Sewell, Computational Methods of Linear Algebra. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

G. Longo, Perspectives on Organisms: Biological time, Symmetries and Singularities. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. J. F. E. de Wilde, “Begoniaceae,” in Flowering Plants. Eudicots: Sapindales, Cucurbitales, Myrtaceae, K. Kubitzki, ed. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011, pp.56–71.

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]

E. Andrew, “Damaging Electric Currents In Space Affect Earth’s Equatorial Region, Not Just The Poles,” IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/space/damaging-electric-currents-space-affect-earth-s-equatorial-region-not-just-poles/, 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, “Improving Federal Performance in the Information Age Issue Area Plan: Fiscal Years 1996-98,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, IAP-96-8, Jun. 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

W. K. Anemaet, “The effects of non -surgical interventions on osteoarthritis-like changes in the mouse knee,” Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 2008.

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. Wagner, “With Colon Free and Pitchers Hurt, Mets’ Future Could Lie in Their Past,” New York Times, p.B10, 30-Jun-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 Electronics
ISSN (print)	0916-8524
ISSN (online)	1745-1353
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials