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

Grünbaum, D. (2006). Behavior. Align in the sand. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5778), 1320–1322.

A journal article with 2 authors

Faden, R. R., & Karron, R. A. (2012). Public health and biosecurity. The obligation to prevent the next dual-use controversy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6070), 802–804.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, Y., Peng, R., & You, Z. (2015). APPLIED ORIGAMI. Origami of thick panels. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6246), 396–400.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bader, B., Kuhn, K., Owen, D. J., Waldmann, H., Wittinghofer, A., & Kuhlmann, J. (2000). Bioorganic synthesis of lipid-modified proteins for the study of signal transduction. Nature, 403(6766), 223–226.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Le Doeuff, R., & Zaïm, M. E. H. (2013). Rotating Electrical Machines. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Su, J., Zhao, B., Sun, Z., Wang, X., Wang, F., & Xu, K. (Eds.). (2013). Frontiers in Internet Technologies: Second CCF Internet Conference of China, ICoC 2013, Zhangjiajie, China, July 10, 2013, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 401). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Anderson, E., & McCormack, M. (2016). Bisexuality as a Unique Social Problem. In M. McCormack (Ed.), The Changing Dynamics of Bisexual Men’s Lives: Social Research Perspectives (pp. 49–67). 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

Andrew, E. (2015, August 19). Weather Forecasting Is About To Get Even Better. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2008). Commercial Aviation: Impact of Airline Crew Scheduling on Delays and Cancellations of Commercial Flights (GAO-08-1041R). 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

McCorvey, Z. J. (2013). Addressing disruptive behaviors in an After School Program classroom: The effects of the Daily Behavior Report Card [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Brantley, B. (2017, August 24). Theater; The Last Days To Catch a Comet. New York Times, AR2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grünbaum, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Faden & Karron, 2012; Grünbaum, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Faden & Karron, 2012)
Three authors: (Chen et al., 2015)
6 or more authors: (Bader et al., 2000)

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