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

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

Wadman M (2007) When the party’s over. Nature 445:13

A journal article with 2 authors

Rees DC, Howard JB (2003) The interface between the biological and inorganic worlds: iron-sulfur metalloclusters. Science 300:929–931

A journal article with 3 authors

Hanash SM, Pitteri SJ, Faca VM (2008) Mining the plasma proteome for cancer biomarkers. Nature 452:571–579

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hermann JC, Marti-Arbona R, Fedorov AA, et al (2007) Structure-based activity prediction for an enzyme of unknown function. Nature 448:775–779

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Aldridge P, O’Dwyer L (2013) Practical Emergency and Critical Care Veterinary Nursing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., West Sussex, UK

An edited book

Day JW, Kemp GP, Freeman AM, Muth DP (2014) Perspectives on the Restoration of the Mississippi Delta: The Once and Future Delta. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Oliehoek FA, Visser A (2010) A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Collaboration: Principal Description Methods and Efficient Heuristic Approximations. In: Babuška R, Groen FCA (eds) Interactive Collaborative Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 87–124

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 Testing.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) “Mother” Robot Builds Evolving Babies. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1975) Ways To Improve Management of Automated Data Processing Resources. 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

Yackel RJ (2010) Recruitment and retention of nurses in long -term care within the Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairs. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Wines M (2017) Voter Fraud Panel Leads to Friction. New York Times A15

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 Testing
Abbreviation	J. Electron. Test.
ISSN (print)	0923-8174
ISSN (online)	1573-0727
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering