How to format your references using the International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications. 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

Nobrega MA. Journal club. A human geneticist explores the ways that genes are regulated. Nature 2010; 466(7302):11.

A journal article with 2 authors

Metz M, Fütterer J. Biodiversity (Communications arising): suspect evidence of transgenic contamination. Nature 2002; 416(6881):600–1; discussion 600, 602.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rocha PP, Chaumeil J, Skok JA. Molecular biology. Finding the right partner in a 3D genome. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2013; 342(6164):1333–1334.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kim JV, Kang SS, Dustin ML, McGavern DB. Myelomonocytic cell recruitment causes fatal CNS vascular injury during acute viral meningitis. Nature 2009; 457(7226):191–195.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reay D. Digital Signal Processing and Applications with the OMAP-L138 eXperimenter. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

Chan CC. Problem Gambling in Hong Kong and Macao: Etiology, Prevalence and Treatment. Springer: Singapore, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen A, Feng H, Guo Z. Classification Based on Lower Integral and Extreme Learning Machine. In: Wang X, Pedrycz W, Chan P, He Q (eds). Machine Learning and Cybernetics: 13th International Conference, Lanzhou, China, July 13-16, 2014. Proceedings. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014, pp 43–51.

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 International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Even Thermodynamics Gets Weird At An Atomic Level. IFLScience. 2016.https://www.iflscience.com/physics/even-thermodynamics-gets-weird-at-an-atomic-level/ (accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office. Digital Television Transition: Information on the Implementation of the Converter Box Subsidy Program and Consumer Participation in the Program. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chima-Okereke O. The distinct VPS35 mutant, env1, exhibits unique protein mislocalization and processing phenotype. 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

Greenhouse L. JUSTICES, 5-4, BACK DETAINEE APPEALS FOR GUANTÁNAMO. New York Times. 2008; : A1.

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	International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications
Abbreviation	Int. J. Circuit Theory Appl.
ISSN (print)	0098-9886
ISSN (online)	1097-007X
Scope	Computer Science Applications Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Applied Mathematics

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