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

Roberts, J.W. Biochemistry. RNA Polymerase, a Scrunching Machine. Science 2006, 314, 1097–1098.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jordan, M.J.T.; Kable, S.H. Chemistry. Roaming Reaction Pathways along Excited States. Science 2012, 335, 1054–1055.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sousa-Nunes, R.; Yee, L.L.; Gould, A.P. Fat Cells Reactivate Quiescent Neuroblasts via TOR and Glial Insulin Relays in Drosophila. Nature 2011, 471, 508–512.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Oury, F.; Murakami, Y.; Renaud, J.-S.; Pasqualetti, M.; Charnay, P.; Ren, S.-Y.; Rijli, F.M. Hoxa2- and Rhombomere-Dependent Development of the Mouse Facial Somatosensory Map. Science 2006, 313, 1408–1413.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Seeber, P.; Shander, A. Basics of Blood Management; Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK, 2012; ISBN 9781118338070.

An edited book

Static Analysis: 12th International Symposium, SAS 2005, London, UK, September 7-9, 2005. Proceedings; Hankin, C., Siveroni, I., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005; Vol. 3672; ISBN 9783540285847.

A chapter in an edited book

Mina, M. Strategies for Tracking the Origin and Fate of Odontoblasts and Pulp Cell Progenitors. In The Dental Pulp: Biology, Pathology, and Regenerative Therapies; Goldberg, M., Ed.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014; pp. 47–59 ISBN 9783642551598.

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

Carpineti, A. Newly Discovered Da Vinci Doodle Reveals His Understanding Of Friction 200 Years Before Anyone Else Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/newly-discovered-da-vinci-doodle-reveals-his-understanding-of-friction-200-years-before-anyone-else/ (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 [Comments on Claim for Additional Charges on FAA Shipment]; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1995;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Herkert, H.L. Toward an Unseen Shore: Imaginative Thinking in Childhood Grief. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute: Carpinteria, CA, 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

Murphy, S. Feeding More for Less in Niger. New York Times 2005, A19.

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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