How to format your references using the IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences. 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]

P. J. Reimer, “Atmospheric science. Refining the radiocarbon time scale,” Science, vol.338, no. 6105, pp.337–338, Oct. 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N. J. Dudney and J. Li, “Materials science. Using all energy in a battery,” Science, vol.347, no. 6218, pp.131–132, Jan. 2015.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y. Wang, Z. Duan, and D. Fan, “An ion diffusion method for visualising a solid-like water nanofilm,” Sci. Rep., vol.3, p.3505, Dec. 2013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B. Chen, X. Zeng, U. Baumeister, G. Ungar, and C. Tschierske, “Liquid crystalline networks composed of pentagonal, square, and triangular cylinders,” Science, vol.307, no. 5706, pp.96–99, Jan. 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Ghavami, L. B. Michael, and R. Kohno, Ultra Wideband Signals and Systems in Communication Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

S. R. Al-araji, Digital Phase Lock Loops: Architectures and Applications. Springer US, Boston, MA, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. E. Rossi and C. V. Deutsch, “Definition of Estimation Domains,” in Mineral Resource Estimation, C. V. Deutsch, ed. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014, pp.51–65.

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 Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, “Sitting Might Not Be That Bad For You After All,” IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/sitting-wont-kill-you-after-all/, 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, “The Intermodal Approach to Transportation,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 144264, Jan. 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. K. Kennedy-Reid, “Exploring the Habitus: A Phenomenological Study of Transformative Learning Processes,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 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. Wagner, “Cubs Pull Even as the Indians’ Play Proves Sloppier Than the Weather,” New York Times, p.B13, 27-Oct-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 Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
ISSN (print)	0916-8508
ISSN (online)	1745-1337
Scope	Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Signal Processing Electrical and Electronic Engineering Applied Mathematics