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

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

Gewin, V.: Academy proposes tighter crop monitoring. Nature. 415, 948 (2002)

A journal article with 2 authors

Schoelkopf, R.J., Girvin, S.M.: Wiring up quantum systems. Nature. 451, 664–669 (2008)

A journal article with 3 authors

Suzuki, G., Shimazu, N., Tanaka, M.: A yeast prion, Mod5, promotes acquired drug resistance and cell survival under environmental stress. Science. 336, 355–359 (2012)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pavesi, L., Dal Negro, L., Mazzoleni, C., Franzò, G., Priolo, F.: Optical gain in silicon nanocrystals. Nature. 408, 440–444 (2000)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coe, J.T.: Unlikely Victory: How General Electric Succeeded in the Chemical Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2000)

An edited book

Sholarin, E.A.: Environmental Project Management: Principles, Methodology, and Processes. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Escadafal, R., Chehbouni, A.G.: Monitoring Arid Land Surfaces With Earth Observation Techniques: Examples Of Intense And Extensive Land Uses. In: Qi, J. and Evered, K.T. (eds.) Environmental Problems of Central Asia and their Economic, Social and Security Impacts. pp. 59–72. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2008)

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 Journal of Computational Electronics.

Blog post

Andrews, R.: 815-Million-Year-Old “Time Capsule” Reveals Atmosphere Breathed By Earth’s Very First Animals, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/815millionyearold-time-capsule-reveals-atmosphere-breathed-by-earths-very-first-animals/

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: Information Technology: Opportunities Exist to Improve Management of DOD’s Electronic Health Record Initiative. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2010)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gilbert, S.A.: Succession Planning Relating to the Millennial Generation in Private Four-Year Universities, (2017)

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

Neuman, W.: In Colombia, Land Mines Are Cleared, Inch by Inch, (2015)

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	Journal of Computational Electronics
Abbreviation	J. Comput. Electron.
ISSN (print)	1569-8025
ISSN (online)	1572-8137
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Modelling and Simulation Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics