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

Good, M.F.: Immunology. Pasteur approach to a malaria vaccine may take the lead. Science. 341, 1352–1353 (2013)

A journal article with 2 authors

Odorizzi, P.M., Wherry, E.J.: Immunology. An interferon paradox. Science. 340, 155–156 (2013)

A journal article with 3 authors

Culley, A.I., Lang, A.S., Suttle, C.A.: High diversity of unknown picorna-like viruses in the sea. Nature. 424, 1054–1057 (2003)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mauk, B.H., Mitchell, D.G., Krimigis, S.M., Roelof, E.C., Paranicas, C.P.: Energetic neutral atoms from a trans-Europa gas torus at Jupiter. Nature. 421, 920–922 (2003)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morvillo, N.: Science and Religion. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK (2010)

An edited book

Ioannides, M., Fink, E., Moropoulou, A., Hagedorn-Saupe, M., Fresa, A., Liestøl, G., Rajcic, V., Grussenmeyer, P. eds: Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection: 6th International Conference, EuroMed 2016, Nicosia, Cyprus, October 31 – November 5, 2016, Proceedings, Part II. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Battaglia, E.: Fisiopatologia dell’annegamento. In: Baghin, A. (ed.) Annegamento Soccorso tecnico e sanitario. pp. 59–63. Springer, Milano (2009)

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

Carpineti, A.: New Method Helps Astronomers Directly Image Exoplanets Around Distant Stars

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: Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor: Information on the Status and Cost of Needed Improvements. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1995)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shlapak, A.: Mental health of foster youth in Ventura County, (2013)

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

Walsh, M.W.: Supreme Court Hears Plea for Help From Puerto Rico, (2016)

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

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