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]

J. M. DeSimone, “Practical approaches to green solvents,” Science, vol. 297, no. 5582, pp. 799–803, Aug. 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. D. Scanlon and M. S. Lee, “The Pleistocene serpent Wonambi and the early evolution of snakes,” Nature, vol. 403, no. 6768, pp. 416–420, Jan. 2000.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. W. Schmidt, H. J. Spero, and D. W. Lea, “Links between salinity variation in the Caribbean and North Atlantic thermohaline circulation,” Nature, vol. 428, no. 6979, pp. 160–163, Mar. 2004.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B. E. H. van Oort, N. J. C. Tyler, M. P. Gerkema, L. Folkow, A. S. Blix, and K.-A. Stokkan, “Circadian organization in reindeer,” Nature, vol. 438, no. 7071, pp. 1095–1096, Dec. 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Mazer, Electric Power Planning for Regulated and Deregulated Markets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006.

An edited book

[1]

S. A. Shahid and M. Ahmed, Eds., Environmental Cost and Face of Agriculture in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: Fostering Agriculture in the Context of Climate Change. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Bijak and M. Kupiszewski, “International Migration Trends in Europe Prior to 2002,” in International Migration and the Future of Populations and Labour in Europe, M. Kupiszewski, Ed., in The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis. , Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013, pp. 57–74.

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, “Study Finds Gamers Have Greater Cognitive Function And More Grey Matter,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/expert-gamers-show-greater-cognitive-function-their-amateur-counterparts/

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, “Restructuring of the District of Columbia Department of Public Works’ Division of Transportation,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-01-347R, Mar. 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. S. Lewis, “Identification of Stress-Responsive Genes in the Early Larval Stage of the Fathead Minnow Pimephales promelas,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2006.

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]

M. Billard, “Virtual Target Previews Fall,” New York Times, p. E5, Aug. 19, 2010.

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