How to format your references using the Telecommunications and Radio Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Telecommunications and Radio Engineering (TRE). 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

Murphy, K. M., Comment on “Activation of β-Catenin in Dendritic Cells Regulates Immunity versus Tolerance in the Intestine,” Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 333, no. 6041, pp. 405; author reply 405, July 22, 2011.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chiarugi, A. and Moskowitz, M. A., Cell Biology. PARP-1--a Perpetrator of Apoptotic Cell Death?, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 297, no. 5579, pp. 200–201, July 12, 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

Burke, M. D., Berger, E. M. and Schreiber, S. L., Generating Diverse Skeletons of Small Molecules Combinatorially, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 302, no. 5645, pp. 613–18, October 24, 2003.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Xue, T., Do, M. T. H., Riccio, A., Jiang, Z., Hsieh, J., Wang, H. C., Merbs, S. L., et al., Melanopsin Signalling in Mammalian Iris and Retina, Nature, vol. 479, no. 7371, pp. 67–73, November 2, 2011.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fraser, J. and Simkins, B. J., Enterprise Risk Management, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009.

An edited book

Pelillo, M. Ed., Similarity-Based Pattern Analysis and Recognition, London: Springer, XIV, 291 p. 65 illus., 46 illus. in color, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Potylitsyn, A. P., Ryazanov, M. I., Strikhanov, M. N. and Tishchenko, A. A., Diffraction Radiation in the Ultraviolet and Soft X-Ray Regions, in Diffraction Radiation from Relativistic Particles, M. I. Ryazanov M. N. Strikhanov and A. A. Tishchenko, Eds., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 105–36, 2011.

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 Telecommunications and Radio Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew, E., Video: The Amazing Rosetta Spacecraft and Philae Lander, IFLScience, November 12, 2014.

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

Government Accountability Office, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, AA-96-30(4), Sep. 3, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Johnson, T. F., The Aircraft Electric Taxi System: A Qualitative Multi Case Study, Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, 2017.

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

Winerip, M., and Schwirtz, M., A New York Inmate Dies, and No One Is Punished, New York Times, December 13, 2015.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Murphy, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Murphy, 2011; Chiarugi et al., 2002).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Chiarugi et al., 2002)
Three or more authors: (Xue et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Telecommunications and Radio Engineering
ISSN (print)	0040-2508
ISSN (online)	1943-6009
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