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 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

Endo, M., 2006. Obituary: Setsuro Ebashi (1922-2006). Nature 442, 996.

A journal article with 2 authors

Funk, J.L., Vitousek, P.M., 2007. Resource-use efficiency and plant invasion in low-resource systems. Nature 446, 1079–1081.

A journal article with 3 authors

Choudhary, A., Kohar, V., Sinha, S., 2014. Taming explosive growth through dynamic random links. Sci. Rep. 4, 4308.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mondal, C., Khan, A.H., Das, B., Acharya, S., Sengupta, S., 2013. Origin of chains of Au-PbS nano-dumbbells in space. Sci. Rep. 3, 2612.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Luther, G.W., III, 2016. Inorganic Chemistry for Geochemistry and Environmental Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Reilly, N.P., Sirgy, M.J., Gorman, C.A. (Eds.), 2012. Work and Quality of Life: Ethical Practices in Organizations, International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Konstas, A.A., González, R.G., Lev, M.H., 2011. CT Perfusion (CTP), in: González, R.G., Hirsch, J.A., Lev, M.H., Schaefer, P.W., Schwamm, L.H. (Eds.), Acute Ischemic Stroke: Imaging and Intervention. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 83–121.

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., 2017. How Parents Can Make Their Child Into A Psychopath [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, 2007. Financial Market Preparedness: Significant Progress Has Been Made, but Pandemic Planning and Other Challenges Remain (No. GAO-07-399). 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

Perfitt, T., 2009. Megaphone: Fault tolerant, scalable, and trustworthy peer-to-peer microblogging (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

Williams, J., 2016. Making, and Musing On, an Existential Classic. New York Times C22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Endo, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Endo, 2006; Funk and Vitousek, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Funk and Vitousek, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Mondal et al., 2013)

About the journal

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