How to format your references using the Electronics Letters citation style

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

[1]

D. Kahan, “Why we are poles apart on climate change,” Nature, vol. 488, no. 7411, p. 255, Aug. 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

W. Zhong and P. W. Sternberg, “Genome-wide prediction of C. elegans genetic interactions,” Science, vol. 311, no. 5766, pp. 1481–1484, Mar. 2006.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Hacker, U. Hentschel, and U. Dobrindt, “Prokaryotic chromosomes and disease,” Science, vol. 301, no. 5634, pp. 790–793, Aug. 2003.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Kim et al., “Author Correction: Meikin is a conserved regulator of meiosis-I-specific kinetochore function,” Nature, vol. 563, no. 7731, p. E23, Nov. 2018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Bowers, A. House, and D. Owens, Getting Started in Health Research. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

D. M. Gabbay, Revision, Acceptability and Context: Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects. in Cognitive Technologies. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Reichart, G. Leen, N. Courmont, R. Knüppel, C. Schmid, and M. Brockmann, “Applications,” in CAN System Engineering: From Theory to Practical Applications, W. Lawrenz, Ed., London: Springer, 2013, pp. 255–282.

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 Letters.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Man Constructs 3D Printed Concrete Castle,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/man-constructs-3d-printed-concrete-castle/

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, “Land Management Systems: Extensive Cost Increases and Delays in BLM’s Major Data Base Project,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, IMTEC-91-55, Aug. 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Y. Huang, “Sliding Mode Observer Design for Permanent Magnetic Synchronous Generator Based Wind Energy Conversion Systems,” Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, 2017.

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

[1]

N. St. Fleur, “Rattled by Trump Policies, Scientists Take to Streets,” New York Times, p. A25, Apr. 22, 2017.

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], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Electronics Letters
Abbreviation	Electron. Lett.
ISSN (print)	0013-5194
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering