How to format your references using the Journal of Electrical Systems and Information Technology citation style

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

Laursen, L., 2015. Botany: The cultivation of weed. Nature 525, S4-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Green, P., Ewing, B., 2013. Comment on “Evidence of abundant purifying selection in humans for recently acquired regulatory functions.” Science 340, 682.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cui, M., Emrick, T., Russell, T.P., 2013. Stabilizing liquid drops in nonequilibrium shapes by the interfacial jamming of nanoparticles. Science 342, 460–463.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Socoliuc, A., Gnecco, E., Maier, S., Pfeiffer, O., Baratoff, A., Bennewitz, R., Meyer, E., 2006. Atomic-scale control of friction by actuation of nanometer-sized contacts. Science 313, 207–210.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Huang, Q., Jing, S., Yi, J., Zhen, W., 2014. Innovative Testing and Measurement Solutions for Smart Grid. John Wiley & Sons, Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore.

An edited book

Smith, S., 2007. Practical MythTV: Building a PVR and Media Center PC. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Voyiadjis, G.Z., Woelke, P., 2008. Elasto-Plastic Geometrically Non-linear Finite Element Analysis of Thick Plates and Shells, in: Woelke, P. (Ed.), Elasto-Plastic and Damage Analysis of Plates and Shells. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 91–117.

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 Electrical Systems and Information Technology.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2016. Hunter-Gatherer Societies Have Three-Tiered Social Networks [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2010. Information Technology: Management Improvements Are Essential to VA’s Second Effort to Replace Its Outpatient Scheduling System (No. GAO-10-579). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Venegas Carro, G.I., 2017. The Slow Movements of Anton Bruckner’s Symphonies: Dialogical Perspectives (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Barnard, A., Gordon, M.R., 2016. Aid Convoy Is Hit in Syria as Cease-Fire Falters and Bombings Resume. New York Times A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Laursen, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Green and Ewing, 2013; Laursen, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Green and Ewing, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Socoliuc et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Electrical Systems and Information Technology
ISSN (print)	2314-7172
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