How to format your references using the International Journal of Electronics citation style

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

Kampinga, H. H. (2015). Molecular biology: It takes two to untangle. Nature, 524(7564), 169–170.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wellik, D. M., & Capecchi, M. R. (2003). Hox10 and Hox11 genes are required to globally pattern the mammalian skeleton. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5631), 363–367.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gollo, L. L., Kinouchi, O., & Copelli, M. (2013). Single-neuron criticality optimizes analog dendritic computation. Scientific Reports, 3, 3222.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bauer, J., Chen, K., Hiltbunner, A., Wehrli, E., Eugster, M., Schnell, D., & Kessler, F. (2000). The major protein import receptor of plastids is essential for chloroplast biogenesis. Nature, 403(6766), 203–207.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dubé, J., & Legros, D. (2014). Spatial Econometrics Using Microdata. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Devos, J., Landeghem, H. van, & Deschoolmeester, D. (Eds.). (2014). Information Systems for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: State of Art of IS Research in SMEs. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Moumtzoglou, A., & Kastania, A. (2013). An Expository Discourse of E-Health. In P. M. Pardalos, P. G. Georgiev, P. Papajorgji, & B. Neugaard (Eds.), Systems Analysis Tools for Better Health Care Delivery (pp. 49–63). Springer.

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 Electronics.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, September 21). People With ‘Obesity Gene’ Can Still Lose Weight. IFLScience; 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

Government Accountability Office. (2009). Access to Arts Education: Inclusion of Additional Questions in Education’s Planned Research Would Help Explain Why Instruction Time Has Decreased for Some Students (GAO-09-286). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Krishnan, R. (2014). Generalized Conditional Matching Algorithm for Ordered and Unordered Sets [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Kelly, C. (1999, July 25). Focused on Steering A Dinghy to Sydney. New York Times, 812.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Kampinga, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kampinga, 2015; Wellik & Capecchi, 2003).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Wellik & Capecchi, 2003)
Three authors: (Gollo et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Bauer et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Electronics
Abbreviation	Int. J. Electron.
ISSN (print)	0020-7217
ISSN (online)	1362-3060
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering