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

Horton JC (2000) Boundary disputes. Nature 406:565

A journal article with 2 authors

Hill A, Cooke G (2014) Medicine. Hepatitis C can be cured globally, but at what cost? Science 345:141–142

A journal article with 3 authors

Glaser A, Barak B, Goldston RJ (2014) A zero-knowledge protocol for nuclear warhead verification. Nature 510:497–502

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zheng AY, Lawhorn JK, Lumley T, Freeman S (2008) Assessment. Application of Bloom’s taxonomy debunks the “MCAT myth.” Science 319:414–415

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bachmutsky A (2010) System Design for Telecommunication Gateways. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Nanz S (2011) The Future of Software Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Geier T (2016) Noncommittal Commitment: Alien Spaces of Ecocosmopolitics in Recent World Literature. In: Tally RT, Battista CM (eds) Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, 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 Testing.

Blog post

Andrew E (2013) Medication May Help Treat Cocaine Addiction For The First Time. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/medication-may-help-treat-cocaine-addiction-first-time/. 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 (1982) GAO Reports Concerning Federal Student Financial Aid Programs. 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

Johnson L (2010) A cross-cultural examination of the needs and behaviors of female caregivers of cancer patients at the end of life: A theoretical elaboration. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

DAVID KELLY; David Kelly is an editor of The Book Review (1990) “I CAN POP I CAN BREAK I CAN SLIDE AND JERK.” New York Times 744

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