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]

P. Smaglik, “In Franklin’s footsteps,” Nature, vol. 422, no. 6932, p. 643, Apr. 2003.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

W.-P. Chen and Z. Yang, “Earthquakes beneath the Himalayas and Tibet: evidence for strong lithospheric mantle,” Science, vol. 304, no. 5679, pp. 1949–1952, Jun. 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

I. Afek, O. Ambar, and Y. Silberberg, “High-NOON states by mixing quantum and classical light,” Science, vol. 328, no. 5980, pp. 879–881, May 2010.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K. V. Morris, S. W.-L. Chan, S. E. Jacobsen, and D. J. Looney, “Small interfering RNA-induced transcriptional gene silencing in human cells,” Science, vol. 305, no. 5688, pp. 1289–1292, Aug. 2004.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. Saccone and G. Pesole, Handbook of Comparative Genomics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.

An edited book

[1]

G. Moscardo and P. Benckendorff, Eds., Education for Sustainability in Tourism: A Handbook of Processes, Resources, and Strategies, 1st ed. 2015. in CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. B. Dissanayake and R. Chandrajith, “Iodine Geochemistry and Health,” in Introduction to Medical Geology, R. Chandrajith, Ed., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009, pp. 99–137.

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, “Strange, newly-discovered exoplanet defies planetary formation theories,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/strange-newly-discovered-exoplanet-defies-planetary-formation-theories/

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, “TANF and Child Welfare Programs: Increased Data Sharing Could Improve Access to Benefits and Services,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-12-2, Oct. 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Tan, “Conceptualizing Psychological History: Edgar Allan Poe and the Themes of the Normal and the Pathological, Life and Death,” Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, 2014.

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, “A Potluck of Anxiety as a Family Gathers in an Election Season,” New York Times, p. C3, Sep. 18, 2016.

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