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]

F. Perez, “Cell biology: Organelles under light control,” Nature, vol.518, no. 7537, pp.41–42, Feb. 2015.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

V. Lavallo and R. H. Grubbs, “Carbenes as catalysts for transformations of organometallic iron complexes,” Science, vol.326, no. 5952, pp.559–562, Oct. 2009.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Zhou, B. Thompson, and R. F. Hess, “A new form of rapid binocular plasticity in adult with amblyopia,” Sci. Rep., vol.3, p.2638, 2013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B. M. Ott, M. Cruciger, A. M. Dacks, and R. V. M. Rio, “Hitchhiking of host biology by beneficial symbionts enhances transmission,” Sci. Rep., vol.4, p.5825, Jul. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. Wing, How Your House Works. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

M. Kendall and B. Samways, Eds., Learning to Live in the Knowledge Society: IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, IFIP TC 3 ED-L2L Conference September 7–10, 2008, Milano, Italy, vol.281. Springer US, Boston, MA, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Brüggemann and G. P. Patil, “Sensitivity and Ambiguity,” in Ranking and Prioritization for Multi-indicator Systems: Introduction to Partial Order Applications, G. P. Patil, ed. Springer, New York, NY, 2011, pp.43–55.

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]

E. Andrew, “Could You Be Related To Genghis Khan?,” IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/could-you-be-related-genghis-khan/, 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, “Airline Competition: Weak Financial Structure Threatens Competition,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, RCED-91-110, Apr. 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. H. Conway, “Signs and symptoms of moral injury in female vietnam veterans: A qualitative examination of the nvvrs,” Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 2014.

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]

A. Hartocollis, “Long Island College Hospital Names Choice for the Future,” New York Times, p.A24, 04-Apr-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 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