How to format your references using the Journal of Display Technology citation style

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

[1]

A. Petherick, “Campaigning for Chagas disease,” Nature, vol. 465, no. 7301, pp. S21-2, Jun. 2010.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. O. Marks and H. C. Muller-Landau, “Comment on ‘From plant traits to plant communities: a statistical mechanistic approach to biodiversity,’” Science, vol. 316, no. 5830, pp. 1425; author reply 1425, Jun. 2007.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Z. L. Johnson, C.-G. Cheong, and S.-Y. Lee, “Crystal structure of a concentrative nucleoside transporter from Vibrio cholerae at 2.4 Å,” Nature, vol. 483, no. 7390, pp. 489–493, Mar. 2012.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Q.-S. Wu, M.-Q. Cao, Y.-N. Zou, and X.-H. He, “Direct and indirect effects of glomalin, mycorrhizal hyphae, and roots on aggregate stability in rhizosphere of trifoliate orange,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 5823, Jul. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Z. M. Seagal and O. M. Surnina, Ultrasonic Topographical and Pathotopographical Anatomy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc., 2016.

An edited book

[1]

D. J. Tippins, M. P. Mueller, M. van Eijck, and J. D. Adams, Eds., Cultural Studies and Environmentalism: The Confluence of EcoJustice, Place-based (Science) Education, and Indigenous Knowledge Systems, vol. 3. in Cultural Studies of Science Education, vol. 3. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Pampolini and G. Del Piero, “Strain Localization in Polyurethane Foams: Experiments and Theoretical Model,” in Mechanics of Microstructured Solids: Cellular Materials, Fibre Reinforced Solids and Soft Tissues, J.-F. Ganghoffer and F. Pastrone, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009, pp. 29–38.

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 Display Technology.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, “Animal Rights Activists Free Captive Penguin Into The Ocean, Probably Resulting In Its Death,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/animal-rights-activists-free-captive-penguin-into-the-ocean-probably-resulting-in-its-death/

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, “Transportation Worker Identification Credential: Internal Control Weaknesses Need to Be Corrected to Help Achieve Security Objectives,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-11-648T, May 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

N. L. Alai, “Development of a Sport-Specific Curriculum Addressing Selfefficacy to Optimize Carbohydrate and Calorie Intake Among Male and Female High School Cross-Country Runners,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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

[1]

M. Pilon, “Wozniacki Is Lining Up for New York Marathon,” New York Times, p. B13, Jul. 31, 2014.

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], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Display Technology
Abbreviation	J. Display Technol.
ISSN (print)	1551-319X
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Condensed Matter Physics