How to format your references using the Device citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Device. 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

Endersby, J. (2009). Lumpers and splitters: Darwin, Hooker, and the search for order. Science 326, 1496–1499.

A journal article with 2 authors

Denicourt, C., and Dowdy, S.F. (2004). Medicine. Targeting apoptotic pathways in cancer cells. Science 305, 1411–1413.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lan, R., Irvine, J.T.S., and Tao, S. (2013). Synthesis of ammonia directly from air and water at ambient temperature and pressure. Sci. Rep. 3, 1145.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Nakata, M., Zanchetta, G., Chapman, B.D., Jones, C.D., Cross, J.O., Pindak, R., Bellini, T., and Clark, N.A. (2007). End-to-end stacking and liquid crystal condensation of 6 to 20 base pair DNA duplexes. Science 318, 1276–1279.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stewart, J.M. (2001). Managing for World Class Safety (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Chan, L., and Tse, V. eds. (2013). Multidisciplinary Care of Urinary Incontinence: A Handbook for Health Professionals (Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Calderwood, S.K., Murshid, A., Zhu, B., and Mambula, S.S. (2010). Role of Host Molecular Chaperones in Responses to Bacterial Infection and Endotoxin Exposure. In Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Heat Shock Proteins in Infectious Disease Heat Shock Proteins., A. G. Pockley, S. K. Calderwood, and M. G. Santoro, eds. (Springer Netherlands), pp. 107–120.

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 Device.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Snake Has Yet Another Virgin Birth. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/single-snake-has-another-virgin-birth/.

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 (2008). The Upcoming Transition: GAO’s Efforts to Assist the 111th Congress and the Next Administration (U.S. Government Printing Office).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Akiyama, K.M. (2017). Taste Detection in Post-Laryngectomy Head and Neck Cancer Survivors and Its Effect on Dietary Intake and Malnutrition Status.

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

Vecsey, G. (2010). Football Coaches Find Stress And Satisfaction. New York Times, D1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ².
This sentence cites two references ^2,4.
This sentence cites four references ^2,4,6,8.

About the journal

Full journal title	Device
ISSN (online)	2666-9986
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