How to format your references using the IEEE Electron Device Letters citation style

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

[1]

K. R. Chi, “Microscopy: Ever-increasing resolution,” Nature, vol. 462, no. 7273, pp. 675–678, Dec. 2009.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. C. Ashworth and F. C. Thompson, “Palaeontology: A fly in the biogeographic ointment,” Nature, vol. 423, no. 6936, pp. 135–136, May 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

K. L. Lavender, R. E. Davis, and W. B. Owens, “Mid-depth recirculation observed in the interior Labrador and Irminger seas by direct velocity measurements,” Nature, vol. 407, no. 6800, pp. 66–69, Sep. 2000.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Horie et al., “Endogenous non-retroviral RNA virus elements in mammalian genomes,” Nature, vol. 463, no. 7277, pp. 84–87, Jan. 2010.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Khanlari and M. S. Fard, FIDIC Plant and Design-Build Form of Contract Illustrated. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

A. Parker, Data-driven Generation of Policies. in SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. New York, NY: Springer, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. R. Cooper, R. A. Satcher, L. A. Gurski, and K. L. van Golen, “Mechanism of Metastasis to Bone: The Role of Bone Marrow Endothelium,” in Bone and Cancer, F. Bronner and M. C. Farach-Carson, Eds., London: Springer, 2009, pp. 57–71.

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 IEEE Electron Device Letters.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Discovery of More Genes Associated With Alzheimer’s Disease,” IFLScience.

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, “Y2K Computing Challenge: Day One Planning and Operations Guide,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, AIMD-10.1.22, Oct. 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Shearer, “Application of the recovery model in clinical practice,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2012.

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]

B. Brantley, “Terrors of an Unfixed Reality,” New York Times, p. C1, Jun. 23, 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	IEEE Electron Device Letters
Abbreviation	IEEE Electron Device Lett.
ISSN (print)	0741-3106
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials