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]

D. Seliktar, “Designing cell-compatible hydrogels for biomedical applications,” Science, vol.336, no. 6085, pp.1124–1128, Jun. 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. König and P. F. M. J. Verschure, “Neuroscience. Neurons in action,” Science, vol.296, no. 5574, pp.1817–1818, Jun. 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Yin, X. Yang, and Y. Zheng, “Influence of increasing combustion temperature on the AMS 14C dating of modern crop phytoliths,” Sci. Rep., vol.4, p.6511, Oct. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. V. McGregor, M. Dima, H. W. Fischer, and S. Mulitza, “Rapid 20th-century increase in coastal upwelling off northwest Africa,” Science, vol.315, no. 5812, pp.637–639, Feb. 2007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B. R. Hopkins, Starting and Managing a Nonprofit Organization. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2009.

An edited book

[1]

B. Zhang, G. W. Fulmer, X. Liu, W. Hu, S. Peng, and B. Wei, Eds., International Conference on Science Education 2012 Proceedings: Science Education: Policies and Social Responsibilities. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Z. Li, C. Gao, and Y. Sun, “Research on Collision Detection of Tree Swaying in Wind,” in Computer Science for Environmental Engineering and EcoInformatics: International Workshop, CSEEE 2011, Kunming, China, July 29-31, 2011, Proceedings, Part II, Y. Yu, Z. Yu, and J. Zhao, eds. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011, pp.18–23.

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]

J. Davis, “The Inside Of Ancient Fossil Turds Visualized In Impressive 3D,” IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-inside-of-ancient-fossil-turds-visualized-in-impressive-3d/, 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, “Research and Development and the Economy,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 094660, May 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Obidos, “Attitudes toward and knowledge of advance directives: A quantitative study,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2015.

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, “Dominican Players Hone Skills With AidOf Broomsticks,” New York Times, p.SP1, 06-Oct-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 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