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

Pockley, P., 2001. Funding bonanza for astronomy and biotech in Australia. Nature 412, 846.

A journal article with 2 authors

Greene, C.H., Pershing, A.J., 2007. Oceans. Climate drives sea change. Science 315, 1084–1085.

A journal article with 3 authors

Song, Y.Q., Ryu, S., Sen, P.N., 2000. Determining multiple length scales in rocks. Nature 406, 178–181.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tsutsui, M., Morikawa, T., Arima, A., Taniguchi, M., 2013. Thermoelectricity in atom-sized junctions at room temperatures. Sci. Rep. 3, 3326.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

George, M.D., Donley, T.G., Preshaw, P.M., 2014. Ultrasonic Periodontal Debridement. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Maher, C.A., Powell, A.B., Uptegrove, E.B. (Eds.), 2010. Combinatorics and Reasoning: Representing, Justifying and Building Isomorphisms. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Leal, M.A., January, C.T., 2013. Cardiovascular Effects of Methadone, in: Cruciani, R.A., Knotkova, H. (Eds.), Handbook of Methadone Prescribing and Buprenorphine Therapy. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 51–58.

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

Taub, B., 2016. Microsoft To Help Regulate Legal Marijuana Sales [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/microsoft-to-help-regulate-legal-marijuana-sales/ (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, 2006. NASA: Sound Management and Oversight Key to Addressing Crew Exploration Vehicle Project Risks (No. GAO-06-1127T). 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

Guo, Z., 2008. Experimental Analysis of Polymer Nanocomposite Foaming Using Carbon Dioxide (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Gustines, G.G., 2009. Sheldon Dorf, 76, Founder of Comic-Con. New York Times B18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pockley, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Greene and Pershing, 2007; Pockley, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Greene and Pershing, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Tsutsui et al., 2013)

About the journal

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