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

Finlay, B. B. (2001). Microbiology. Cracking Listeria’s password. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5522), 1665–1667.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jeoung, J.-H., & Dobbek, H. (2007). Carbon dioxide activation at the Ni,Fe-cluster of anaerobic carbon monoxide dehydrogenase. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5855), 1461–1464.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kippenberg, T. J., Holzwarth, R., & Diddams, S. A. (2011). Microresonator-based optical frequency combs. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6029), 555–559.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Katsanis, N., Ansley, S. J., Badano, J. L., Eichers, E. R., Lewis, R. A., Hoskins, B. E., Scambler, P. J., Davidson, W. S., Beales, P. L., & Lupski, J. R. (2001). Triallelic inheritance in Bardet-Biedl syndrome, a Mendelian recessive disorder. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5538), 2256–2259.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cox, I., Gaudard, M. A., & Stephens, M. L. (2016). Visual Six Sigma, Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Friberg, J. (Ed.). (2007). A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts: Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection Cuneiform Texts I. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Servetti, A., Masala, E., Bucciol, P., & De Martin, J. C. (2007). Variable Time-Scale Multimedia Streaming Over 802.11 Inter-Vehicle Ad-hoc Networks. In H. Abut, J. H. L. Hansen, & K. Takeda (Eds.), Advances for In-Vehicle and Mobile Systems: Challenges for International Standards (pp. 47–57). Springer US.

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

Andrews, R. (2016, August 22). Stricter Parents Are Turning Their Children Into Effective Liars. 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. (1997). Federal Education Funding: Multiple Programs and Lack of Data Raise Efficiency and Effectiveness Concerns (T-HEHS-98-46). 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

Child, R. J. (2013). The evolution of BARREN INFLORESCENCE1 and related AUX/IAA genes in angiosperms [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Pilon, M. (2012, July 14). Path of Saudi Arabian Trailblazer Runs Through the United States. New York Times, D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Finlay, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Finlay, 2001; Jeoung & Dobbek, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Jeoung & Dobbek, 2007)
Three authors: (Kippenberg et al., 2011)
6 or more authors: (Katsanis et al., 2001)

About the journal

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