How to format your references using the Telecommunications and Radio Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Telecommunications and Radio Engineering (TRE). 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

Bishop, D. V. M., Cerebral Asymmetry and Language Development: Cause, Correlate, or Consequence?, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 340, no. 6138, p. 1230531, June 14, 2013.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hathaway, D. H. and Rightmire, L., Variations in the Sun’s Meridional Flow over a Solar Cycle, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 327, no. 5971, pp. 1350–52, March 12, 2010.

A journal article with 3 authors

Petersen, J., Volz, J. and Rauschenbeutel, A., Nanophotonics. Chiral Nanophotonic Waveguide Interface Based on Spin-Orbit Interaction of Light, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 346, no. 6205, pp. 67–71, October 3, 2014.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Baldwin, M. P., Stephenson, D. B., Thompson, D. W. J., Dunkerton, T. J., Charlton, A. J. and O’Neill, A., Stratospheric Memory and Skill of Extended-Range Weather Forecasts, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 301, no. 5633, pp. 636–40, August 1, 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schulman, F. Y., Veterinarian’s Guide to Maximizing Biopsy Results, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016.

An edited book

Kudo, T., Practical Pharmacology for Alzheimer’s Disease, Cham: Springer International Publishing, VIII, 141 p. 27 illus., 9 illus. in color, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Badawi, R. A. and White, C. J., Renal and Mesenteric Intervention, in Peripheral and Cerebrovascular Intervention, D. L. Bhatt, Ed., Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, pp. 79–97, 2012.

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 and Radio Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew, E., Why Volcanoes Erupt, IFLScience, August 5, 2015.

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, Nanotechnology: Nanomaterials Are Widely Used in Commerce, but EPA Faces Challenges in Regulating Risk, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-10-549, May 25, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hufnagel, D., Search for the Cabibbo-Supressed D+ Meson Decays D+ → Π+π 0 and D+ → K+ Π0, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2005.

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

Ortved, J., Trading a T Square for Showbiz, New York Times, August 4, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bishop, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Bishop, 2013; Hathaway et al., 2010).

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

Two authors: (Hathaway et al., 2010)
Three or more authors: (Baldwin et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Telecommunications and Radio Engineering
ISSN (print)	0040-2508
ISSN (online)	1943-6009
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