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]

N. J. Conard, “Palaeolithic ivory sculptures from southwestern Germany and the origins of figurative art,” Nature, vol. 426, no. 6968, pp. 830–832, Dec. 2003.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. J. Lockhart and E. A. Winzeler, “Genomics, gene expression and DNA arrays,” Nature, vol. 405, no. 6788, pp. 827–836, Jun. 2000.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Veríssimo, M. A. Cochrane, and C. Souza Jr, “Ecology. National forests in the Amazon,” Science, vol. 297, no. 5586, p. 1478, Aug. 2002.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Watanabe et al., “Permanent El Niño during the Pliocene warm period not supported by coral evidence,” Nature, vol. 471, no. 7337, pp. 209–211, Mar. 2011.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Bell, Lean Enterprise Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

S. Purushothaman and R. Abraham, Eds., Livelihood Strategies in Southern India: Conservation and Poverty Reduction in Forest Fringes. New Delhi: Springer India, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Asrani, “Economic Implications of Intellectual Property Rights in Evolving Markets,” in Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: Perspectives from Emerging Economies, M. J. Manimala and K. P. Wasdani, Eds., New Delhi: Springer India, 2015, pp. 109–131.

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, “Doctors Find A Tooth Inside A Man’s Nose,” 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, “Line-item Control of Contractors’ Independent Research and Development and Bid and Proposal Costs,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, PSAD-76-54, Dec. 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. A. Ademiluyi, “Felony disenfranchisement and how it contributes to the Black electorate,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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]

K. Feeney, “Homey Food That Speaks Of Brazil,” New York Times, p. NJ22, Apr. 27, 2008.

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