The Grainger College of Engineering
Electrical & Computer Engineering

Thesis Reference Guide: Radio Science Style

References in the Text

  • Each entry in the reference list must be cited in the text. Enclose citations in brackets and list author's name in italics and the year of publication: [Nakasone, 1996], [Nakasone and Hanzawa, 1996], [Nakasone et al., 1996].
  • If the author's name is already part of the sentence, use only the year in brackets: ". . . as proved by Nakasone [1996]."
  • If the author's name is used in the text without the year, do not italicize the author's name: "Nakasone's results were. . . ."
  • Use semicolons to separate entries within brackets: [Nakasone, 1996; Nakasone and Hanzawa, 1996; Nakasone et al., 1996].
  • Two or more publications by the same author in the same year are distinguished by a, b, c, etc. (in italics) after the year: [Nakasone, 1996a; Nakasone and Smith, 1996b].
  • Personal communications and unpublished manuscripts may be cited in the text: (G. Hanzawa, personal communication, 1997). Do not include these items in the reference list.

The Reference List

  • References must be listed alphabetically by authors' last names.
  • Multiple entries for a single author are arranged chronologically.
  • Two or more publications by the same author(s) in the same year are distinguished by a, b, c, etc. after the year.
  • Use a space between the first and middle initials of an author's name.
  • First line is slightly indented, and following lines are tabbed over. Make sure your entries line up.

Books

Cite either the exact pages used, the beginning and ending pages of reference, or total pages.

Hemmingsen, S. M., Soft Science, pp. 12-54, University of Saskatchewan Press, Saskatoon, 1997.

Hemmingsen, S. M., Soft Science, 2nd ed., University of Saskatchewan Press, Saskatoon, 1997.

Hemmingsen, S. M., and Q. Cai, Soft Science, University of Saskatchewan Press, Saskatoon, 1997.

Hemmingsen, S. M., and Q. Cai (Eds.), Soft Science, pp. 12-42, 102-210, University of Saskatchewan Press, Saskatoon, 1997.

Material in edited book
Briggs, B. H., The analysis of spaced sensor records by correlation techniques, in Handbook for MAP, vol. 13, pp. 166-186, edited by C. H. Liu and B. Edwards, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1984.

Book in multivolume set
Prudnikov, A. P., Y. A. Brychkov, and O. I. Marichev, Integrals and Series, vol. I, Elementary Functions, pp. 325 and 405, Gordon and Breach, New York, 1986.

Articles

Names of periodicals not in English should be written out in full. For English titles, you may either use abbreviations or write out in full, but you must consistently do one or the other.

Liu, G., and H. F. Jordan, TDM and TWDM de Bruijn networks and shufflenets for optical communications, IEEE Trans. on Computers, 7, 695-701, 1997.

Author et al.
Liu, G., et al., TDM and TWDM de Bruijn networks and shufflenets for optical communications, IEEE Trans. on Computers, 7, 695-701, 1997.

Article with issue and volume number
Liu, G., and H. F. Jordan, TDM and TWDM de Bruijn networks and shufflenets for optical communications, IEEE Trans. on Computers, 7 (2), 695-701, 1997.

Translated article
Kon, A. L., and V. I. Tatarskiy, The scattered signal frequency spectrum for radio-acoustical atmospheric soundings, Izv. Acad. Sci. USSR Atmos. Oceanic Phys., Engl. Transl., 16 (3), 142-148, 1980.

Article to be published
Hendrix, C. E., G. Kulon, C. S. Anderson, and M. A. Heinze, An experimental study of high data rate propagation through rain-frequency reuse with 3.2 Gb/s per polarization sense, IEEE Trans. Commun., in press, 1993.

Conferences and Symposia

Presented paper
Osifchin, N., and G. Vau, Power considerations for the modernization of telecommunications in Central and Eastern European and former Soviet Union (CEE/FSU) countries, paper presented at the Second International Telecommunications Energy Special Conference, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 10-13, 1997.

Presented paper in press
Osifchin, N., and G. Vau, Power considerations for the modernization of telecommunications in Central and Eastern European and former Soviet Union (CEE/FSU) countries, Second International Telecommunications Energy Special Conference, McGraw-Hill, New York, in press, 1997.

Article from proceedings of a conference/symposia
Yueh, S. H., S. V. Nghiem, and R. Kwok, Polarimetric emission from anisotropic media with its applications for passive remote sensing of sea ice, in Proceedings of the International Geophysics and Remote Sensing Symposium, Houston, TX, 1992.

Article from conference, with publication number
Gibbins, C. J., Statistical studies of propagation and related meteorology over a 500 m path, IEE Conf. Publ. 333, 673-676, 1991.

Article from edited proceedings published under a separate title
Lawrence, B. G., and G. K. Cambrell, Finite-element field analysis for the scattering and immitance matrix elements of a general multiport microwave network, in Advances in Electrical Engineering Software, (Proceedings of the First International Conference on Software for Electrical Engineering Analysis and Design (Electrosoft '90), Lowell, MA, August 1990), edited by P. P. Silvester, pp. 297-306, Computational Mechanics, Southampton, England, 1990.

Reports and Memos

  • Follow this basic pattern: author, title of report/memo, identifying numbers, name of originating facility, location, page numbers, year.
  • "Final report internal research project" (if applicable) before report number.

Whitteker, J. H., Bridged knife edges and Babinet's principle, CRC Rep. CRC-RP-93-DO1, 1993.

Thesis/Dissertation

"M.S. thesis," but "PhD dissertation."

Zhang, H., Delay-insensitive networks, M.S. thesis, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, 1997.

Patent

Kimura, K., Lipeles, A. S., Fuzzy controller component, U. S. Patent 14,860,040, December 14, 1996.

 

 

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