How to format your references using the IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

[1]

G. Bear, “Deep ice and DNA languages,” Nature, vol.403, no. 6766, p.141, Jan. 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. Zitvogel and G. Kroemer, “Cancer: Antibodies regulate antitumour immunity,” Nature, vol.521, no. 7550, pp.35–37, May 2015.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Ergon, X. Lambin, and N. C. Stenseth, “Life-history traits of voles in a fluctuating population respond to the immediate environment,” Nature, vol.411, no. 6841, pp.1043–1045, Jun. 2001.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Panda, S. K. Nayak, B. Campo, J. R. Walker, J. B. Hogenesch, and T. Jegla, “Illumination of the melanopsin signaling pathway,” Science, vol.307, no. 5709, pp.600–604, Jan. 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

N. Pandrea and N.-D. Stănescu, Dynamics of the Rigid Solid with General Constraints by a Multibody Approach. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

K. Xu, Myelinated Fibers and Saltatory Conduction in the Shrimp: The Fastest Impulse Conduction in the Animal Kingdom. Springer Japan, Tokyo, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Ihara, S. Seko, A. Miyata, R. Aoki, T. Ishida, M. Watanabe, R. Hashimoto, and H. Watanabe, “Towards More Practical Information Sharing in Disaster Situations,” in Human Interface and the Management of Information: Applications and Services: 18th International Conference, HCI International 2016 Toronto, Canada, July 17-22, 2016. Proceedings, Part II, S. Yamamoto, ed. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016, pp.32–39.

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 IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “No Exoskeleton, No Brain Surgery: Paralyzed Man Walks Again Using Brain Waves,” 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, “National Airspace System: Improved Budgeting Could Help FAA Better Determine Future Operations and Maintenance Priorities,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-13-693, Aug. 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T. L. Bryant, “The Influence of High School Preparation on Black Male Students’ Ability to Succeed at the Post-Secondary Level,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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

[1]

M. Cooper and M. W. Walsh, “Distressed Cities Weigh Bold Tactics In a New Fiscal Era,” New York Times, p.A19, 01-Apr-2012.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1], [2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
ISSN (print)	0916-8508
ISSN (online)	1745-1337
Scope	Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Signal Processing Electrical and Electronic Engineering Applied Mathematics