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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

R. VanNimwegen, “Award-winning commitment,” Nature, vol. 447, no. 7144, p. 610, May 2007.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. P. Knauth and M. J. Kennedy, “The late Precambrian greening of the Earth,” Nature, vol. 460, no. 7256, pp. 728–732, Aug. 2009.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Hulme, S. J. O’Neill, and S. Dessai, “Climate change. Is weather event attribution necessary for adaptation funding?,” Science, vol. 334, no. 6057, pp. 764–765, Nov. 2011.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

G. Férey et al., “A chromium terephthalate-based solid with unusually large pore volumes and surface area,” Science, vol. 309, no. 5743, pp. 2040–2042, Sep. 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B. Robyns, B. François, G. Delille, and C. Saudemont, Energy Storage in Electric Power Grids. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Y. Li and G. Kaiser, Eds., Expertise in Mathematics Instruction: An International Perspective. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Y. Liu and L. Chen, “Chaos in Spatial Attitude Motion of Spacecraft,” in Chaos in Attitude Dynamics of Spacecraft, L. Chen, Ed., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013, pp. 99–129.

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]

S. Luntz, “Endangered Turtle Gets Prosthetic Fin,” 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, “Attack Warning: Costs to Modernize NORAD’s Computer System Significantly Understated,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, IMTEC-91-23, Apr. 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E. Khatib, “A phenomenological study on the potential impact of implementing information systems in midsize corporations,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 2010.

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]

E. Vasquez, “A Life Without Papers,” New York Times, p. A19, Mar. 02, 2015.

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