How to format your references using the Telecommunications Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Telecommunications Policy. 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

Hartmann, D. L. (2002). Climate change. Tropical surprises. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5556), 811–812.

A journal article with 2 authors

Coudreuse, D., & Nurse, P. (2010). Driving the cell cycle with a minimal CDK control network. Nature, 468(7327), 1074–1079.

A journal article with 3 authors

Falkovich, G., Fouxon, A., & Stepanov, M. G. (2002). Acceleration of rain initiation by cloud turbulence. Nature, 419(6903), 151–154.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Toh, R. J., Peng, W. K., Han, J., & Pumera, M. (2014). Direct in vivo electrochemical detection of haemoglobin in red blood cells. Scientific Reports, 4, 6209.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bâzu, M., & Băjenescu, T. (2011). Failure Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Rodríguez-Arana Muñoz, J. (Ed.). (2016). Recognition of Foreign Administrative Acts (1st ed. 2016, Vol. 10). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Ahmed, S. A. (2016). Dental Image Registration Using Particle Swarm Optimized for Thin Plate Splines from Semi-automatic Correspondences. In A.-E. Hassanien, C. Grosan, & M. Fahmy Tolba (Eds.), Applications of Intelligent Optimization in Biology and Medicine: Current Trends and Open Problems (pp. 91–115). Springer International Publishing.

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 Policy.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, March 31). Bioluminscent trees could light up our streets. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bioluminscent-trees-could-light-our-streets/

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. (2009). Recovery Act: States’ Use of Highway and Transit Funds and Efforts to Meet the Act’s Requirements (GAO-10-312T). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hawkins, S. H. (2017). Lung CT Radiomics: An Overview of Using Images as Data [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Koblin, J. (2016, November 12). Anchor Illuminates Fox Inquiry of Ailes. New York Times, B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hartmann, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Coudreuse & Nurse, 2010; Hartmann, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Coudreuse & Nurse, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Toh et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Telecommunications Policy
Abbreviation	Telecomm. Policy
ISSN (print)	0308-5961
Scope	Information Systems Electrical and Electronic Engineering Human Factors and Ergonomics