How to format your references using the Journal of Electronic Materials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Electronic Materials. 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	Download the output style file
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. L. R. Kump, Science 323, 1175 (2009).

A journal article with 2 authors

1. V. J. M. Salters and H. J. B. Dick, Nature 418, 68 (2002).

A journal article with 3 authors

1. J. A. Scholl, A. L. Koh, and J. A. Dionne, Nature 483, 421 (2012).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. N. Ramachandran, E. Hainsworth, B. Bhullar, S. Eisenstein, B. Rosen, A. Y. Lau, J. C. Walter, and J. LaBaer, Science 305, 86 (2004).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. P. J. Harrington, Pharmaceutical Process Chemistry for Synthesis (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010).

An edited book

1. P. Crescenzi, G. Prencipe, and G. Pucci, editors , Fun with Algorithms: 4th International Conference, FUN 2007, Castiglioncello, Italy, June 3-5, 2007. Proceedings (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007).

A chapter in an edited book

1. A. Baracca and R. Franconi, in Subalternity vs. Hegemony, Cuba’s Outstanding Achievements in Science and Biotechnology, 1959-2014, edited by R. Franconi (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016), pp. 55–73.

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 Electronic Materials.

Blog post

1. D. Andrew, IFLScience (2015).

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, Indian Affairs: Further Actions on GAO Recommendations Needed to Address Systemic Management Challenges with Indian Education (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2015).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. X. Wang, Inferences on Gamma Distributions: Uncensored and Censored Cases, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 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. G. Vecsey, New York Times SP3 (2010).

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 Electronic Materials
Abbreviation	J. Electron. Mater.
ISSN (print)	0361-5235
ISSN (online)	1543-186X
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Materials Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics