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

Adam, D.: Cambridge-MIT Institute probed. Nature. 420, 256 (2002)

A journal article with 2 authors

Su, F., Xu, P.: Genomic analysis of thermophilic Bacillus coagulans strains: efficient producers for platform bio-chemicals. Sci. Rep. 4, 3926 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Xi, Z., Khoo, C.C.H., Dobson, S.L.: Wolbachia establishment and invasion in an Aedes aegypti laboratory population. Science. 310, 326–328 (2005)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cooper, E.R., Andrews, C.D., Wheatley, P.S., Webb, P.B., Wormald, P., Morris, R.E.: Ionic liquids and eutectic mixtures as solvent and template in synthesis of zeolite analogues. Nature. 430, 1012–1016 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Casadella, V., Liu, Z., Uzunidis, D.: Innovation Capabilities and Economic Development in Open Economies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2015)

An edited book

Abraham, A., Falcón, R., Bello, R. eds: Rough Set Theory: A True Landmark in Data Analysis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009)

A chapter in an edited book

Fornasiero, R., Chiodi, A., Carpanzano, E., Carneiro, L.: Research Issues on Customer-Oriented and Eco-friendly Networks for Healthy Fashionable Goods. In: Ortiz, Á., Franco, R.D., and Gasquet, P.G. (eds.) Balanced Automation Systems for Future Manufacturing Networks: 9th IFIP WG 5.5 International Conference, BASYS 2010, Valencia, Spain, July 21-23, 2010. Proceedings. pp. 36–44. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2010)

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.: Astronomy Student Discovers “Warm Neptune” Exoplanet Within Habitable Zone

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: NSA Methods of Acquiring Automatic Data Processing Equipment. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1976)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Burnias, M.P.: A qualitative study of familial factors that contribute to a positive coming out process, (2014)

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

Saslow, L.: New Charter School Will Be Island’s 4th, (2008)

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