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

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

Schaechter, M. (2012). Retrospective. Lynn Margulis (1938-2011). Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6066), 302.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aldy, J. E., & Stavins, R. N. (2012). Climate change. Climate negotiators create an opportunity for scholars. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6098), 1043–1044.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ohtsuki, H., Iwasa, Y., & Nowak, M. A. (2009). Indirect reciprocity provides only a narrow margin of efficiency for costly punishment. Nature, 457(7225), 79–82.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Judson, H., Hayward, B. E., Sheridan, E., & Bonthron, D. T. (2002). A global disorder of imprinting in the human female germ line. Nature, 416(6880), 539–542.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Larsen, E., & Aarts, R. M. (2005). Audio Bandwidth Extension. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Marchetti-Spaccamela, A., & Segal, M. (Eds.). (2011). Theory and Practice of Algorithms in (Computer) Systems: First International ICST Conference, TAPAS 2011, Rome, Italy, April 18-20, 2011. Proceedings (Vol. 6595). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Madden, B. (2015). Putting It All Together. In B. Madden (Ed.), Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension (pp. 171–176). Springer International Publishing.

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 Letters.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, July 21). Why Can’t We Remember Our Early Childhood? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/why-cant-we-remember-our-early-childhood/

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. (1982). UMTA’s Research and Development Program Should Pay Closer Attention to Transit Industry Needs (CED-82-17). 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

Schroeder, S. K. (2017). Tau-Directed Immunotherapy for Alzheimer’s Disease [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

Barnard, A. (2017, May 5). Russia Says Deal Will Bar Americans From Flying in Most of Syria’s Airspace. New York Times, A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schaechter, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Aldy & Stavins, 2012; Schaechter, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Aldy & Stavins, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Judson et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Electronics Letters
Abbreviation	Int. J. Electron. Lett.
ISSN (print)	2168-1724
ISSN (online)	2168-1732
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