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

McLaughlin, S., 2006. Cell biology. Tools to tamper with phosphoinositides. Science 314, 1402–1403.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fine, M., Tchernov, D., 2007. Scleractinian coral species survive and recover from decalcification. Science 315, 1811.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hadders, M.A., Beringer, D.X., Gros, P., 2007. Structure of C8alpha-MACPF reveals mechanism of membrane attack in complement immune defense. Science 317, 1552–1554.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Seiffert, E.R., Simons, E.L., Clyde, W.C., Rossie, J.B., Attia, Y., Bown, T.M., Chatrath, P., Mathison, M.E., 2005. Basal anthropoids from Egypt and the antiquity of Africa’s higher primate radiation. Science 310, 300–304.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adamczyk, B., 2017. Foundations of Electromagnetic Compatibility. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Akhgar, B., Yates, S. (Eds.), 2011. Intelligence Management: Knowledge Driven Frameworks for Combating Terrorism and Organized Crime, Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Vardoulakis, S., Phoon, X., Ochieng, C., 2010. Health Effects of Air Pollutants, in: Lazaridis, M., Colbeck, I. (Eds.), Human Exposure to Pollutants via Dermal Absorption and Inhalation, Environmental Pollution. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 143–184.

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

Luntz, S., 2014. Investigator Claims To Have Solved The Ripper Mystery Using DNA [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/has-dna-solved-ripper-mystery/ (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, 2004. Aviation Assistance: Compensation Criteria and Payment Equity under the Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act (No. GAO-04-725R). 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

Aguerrebere, Y., 2009. Case study of home-school visits (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Kishkovsky, S., 2014. Tatiana Samoilova, 80, Soviet Movie Star. New York Times B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McLaughlin, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Fine and Tchernov, 2007; McLaughlin, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Fine and Tchernov, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Seiffert et al., 2005)

About the journal

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