How to format your references using the Electronics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Electronics. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Kling, J. The Flaw Is Human. Nature 2000, 406, 941.

A journal article with 2 authors

Guillette, L.J., Jr; Iguchi, T. Ecology. Life in a Contaminated World. Science 2012, 337, 1614–1615.

A journal article with 3 authors

Phillips, B.L.; Casey, W.H.; Karlsson, M. Bonding and Reactivity at Oxide Mineral Surfaces from Model Aqueous Complexes. Nature 2000, 404, 379–382.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kawashima, S.A.; Yamagishi, Y.; Honda, T.; Ishiguro, K.-I.; Watanabe, Y. Phosphorylation of H2A by Bub1 Prevents Chromosomal Instability through Localizing Shugoshin. Science 2010, 327, 172–177.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stephanie Hammer Architects of Electronic Trading; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2013; ISBN 9781118705476.

An edited book

International Advertising and Communication: Current Insights and Empirical Findings; Diehl, S., Terlutter, R., Eds.; DUV: Wiesbaden, 2006; ISBN 9783835004559.

A chapter in an edited book

Cleophas, T.J.; Zwinderman, A.H. Optimal Binning. In Machine Learning in Medicine: Part Three; Zwinderman, A.H., Ed.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2013; pp. 37–46 ISBN 9789400778689.

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 Electronics.

Blog post

Davis, J. South Africa To Start Killing Buffalo And Hippos To Save Them From Starvation Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/south-africa-to-start-killing-buffalo-and-hippos-to-save-them-from-starvation/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 Evaluation of the Department of the Army’s Personnel and Cost Estimates for an Electronics Research and Development Command; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1976;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Marchek, S.P. A Quantitative Investigation of the Technology Obsolescence Model (TOM) Factors That Influence the Decision to Replace Obsolete Systems. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University: Minneapolis, MN, 2015.

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

Mele, C.; Stevens, M. Bruce Hampton, 70, Jam-Band Patriarch. New York Times 2017, B14.

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	Electronics
Abbreviation	Electronics (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2079-9292
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