How to format your references using the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine. 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. Howell, “Listen to the lessons of The King’s Speech,” Nature, vol. 470, no. 7332, p. 7, Feb. 2011.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. Zitvogel and G. Kroemer, “CANCER. A p53-regulated immune checkpoint relevant to cancer,” Science, vol. 349, no. 6247, pp. 476–477, Jul. 2015.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.-F. Shiu, W.-C. Chin, and C.-L. Lee, “Carbonaceous particles reduce marine microgel formation,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 5856, Jul. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

E. I. Tocheva, F. I. Rosell, A. G. Mauk, and M. E. P. Murphy, “Side-on copper-nitrosyl coordination by nitrite reductase,” Science, vol. 304, no. 5672, pp. 867–870, May 2004.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. W. Vincoli, Basic Guide to System Safety. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.

An edited book

[1]

H. E. Grasswick, Ed., Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Power in Knowledge. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ö. Boztaş, F. Karakoç, and M. Çoban, “Multidimensional Meet-in-the-Middle Attacks on Reduced-Round TWINE-128,” in Lightweight Cryptography for Security and Privacy: Second International Workshop, LightSec 2013, Gebze, Turkey, May 6-7, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, G. Avoine and O. Kara, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013, pp. 55–67.

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 Solid-State Circuits Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Slowing Down The Development Of Alzheimer’s Plaques,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/slowing-down-development-alzheimers-plaques/

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, “Bank Regulators’ Evaluation of Electronic Signature Systems,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-01-129R, Nov. 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. D. Mills, “Strategic school solutions: A capacity building framework for leaders accelerating 21st century teaching and learning,” Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 2016.

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]

S. Hollander, “Navratilova Loves This,” New York Times, p. D4, Sep. 06, 2000.

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 Solid-State Circuits Magazine
ISSN (print)	1943-0582
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering