How to format your references using the Telematics and Informatics citation style

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

Mantovani, A., 2000. Investigating T-cell memory. Nature 407, 40.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, H.-Y., Malbon, C.C., 2003. Wnt signaling, Ca2+, and cyclic GMP: visualizing Frizzled functions. Science 300, 1529–1530.

A journal article with 3 authors

Matzke, M., Matzke, A.J., Kooter, J.M., 2001. RNA: guiding gene silencing. Science 293, 1080–1083.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Park, M., Penick, E.C., Edwards, J.G., Kauer, J.A., Ehlers, M.D., 2004. Recycling endosomes supply AMPA receptors for LTP. Science 305, 1972–1975.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heimer, T., Werner, M., 2004. Die Zukunft der Mikrosystemtechnik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Brabazon, T. (Ed.), 2016. Play: A Theory of Learning and Change. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Eckert, P., 2011. Risk Assessment for Chemical Spills in the River Rhine, in: Shamrukh, M. (Ed.), Riverbank Filtration for Water Security in Desert Countries, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 69–79.

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 Telematics and Informatics.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. Researchers Figure Out The “Golden Rule” Of Internet Dating [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1989. [Comments on Montana’s Entitlement to Restoration of Rehabilitation Funds] (No. B-232010). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kolb, J.N., 2015. What’s professional development got to do with it? The value of lesson study in implementing the common core standards for mathematical practices (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Dorment, L.P., 2017. Between Gigs, a TV Host Takes a Spin. New York Times MB2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mantovani, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Mantovani, 2000; Wang and Malbon, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Malbon, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Park et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Telematics and Informatics
ISSN (print)	0736-5853
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Electrical and Electronic Engineering Law Communication