How to format your references using the Integration, the VLSI Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Integration, the VLSI Journal. 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]

J.U. Bowie, Structural biology. Membrane protein twists and turns, Science 339 (2013) 398–399.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E. Hazeltine, R.B. Ivry, Neuroscience. Can we teach the cerebellum new tricks?, Science 296 (2002) 1979–1980.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E. Schefuss, S. Schouten, R.R. Schneider, Climatic controls on central African hydrology during the past 20,000 years, Nature 437 (2005) 1003–1006.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

I. Lee, S.V. Date, A.T. Adai, E.M. Marcotte, A probabilistic functional network of yeast genes, Science 306 (2004) 1555–1558.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Köhler, H. Bässler, Electronic Processes in Organic Semiconductors, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

F. Zhang, ed., Shock Waves Science and Technology Library, Vol. 6: Detonation Dynamics, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P.A. Sobotka, D.G. Harrison, M. Fudim, The Endpoint on Measuring the Clinical Effects of Renal Denervation: What Are the Best Surrogates, in: R.R. Heuser, M. Schlaich, H. Sievert (Eds.), Renal Denervation: A New Approach to Treatment of Resistant Hypertension, Springer, London, 2015: pp. 25–43.

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 Integration, the VLSI Journal.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Cold War Spy Satellites Used To Track Himalayan Glacier Retreat, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/cold-war-spy-satellites-used-to-track-himalayan-glacier-retreat/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, Status of the Marine Corps Integrated Fire and Air Support System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.P. Sherman, The effect of head and heart on municipal employee retention, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2001.

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]

L. Saslow, Megyn Kelly and Douglas Brunt, New York Times (2008) ST13.

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 [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Integration, the VLSI Journal
Abbreviation	Integration (Amst.)
ISSN (print)	0167-9260
Scope	Hardware and Architecture Software Electrical and Electronic Engineering