How to format your references using the Journal of Electrostatics citation style

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

C.E. Melançon 3rd, Biochemistry: Elusive source of sulfur unravelled, Nature 518 (2015) 45–46.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

V.M. Weis, D. Allemand, Physiology. What determines coral health?, Science 324 (2009) 1153–1155.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Fraser, W.P. Hanage, B.G. Spratt, Recombination and the nature of bacterial speciation, Science 315 (2007) 476–480.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W. Huang, K. Ma, J. Zhang, M. Qatanani, J. Cuvillier, J. Liu, B. Dong, X. Huang, D.D. Moore, Nuclear receptor-dependent bile acid signaling is required for normal liver regeneration, Science 312 (2006) 233–236.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

N. Recho, Fracture Mechanics and Crack Growth, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

H. Hickman, B.J. Porfilio, eds., The New Politics of the Textbook: Critical Analysis in the Core Content Areas, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

O. Gerhard, C. Wegg, M. Portail, Photometric Surveys of the Galactic Bulge and Long Bar, in: N.R. Napolitano, G. Longo, M. Marconi, M. Paolillo, E. Iodice (Eds.), The Universe of Digital Sky Surveys: A Meeting to Honour the 70th Birthday of Massimo Capaccioli, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 41–47.

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 Electrostatics.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, A Moderate Solar Storm Is Hitting Earth As We Speak, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/a-moderate-solar-storm-is-hitting-earth-as-we-speak/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Explosives Detection Canines: TSA Has Enhanced Its Canine Program, but Opportunities May Exist to Reduce Costs, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.T. Howard, Transracial adoption psychoeducational services for potential adoptive parents: A grant proposal, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

S. Stellin, Your Digital Trail Follows You to the Border, New York Times (2014) F3.

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 Electrostatics
Abbreviation	J. Electrostat.
ISSN (print)	0304-3886
Scope	Biotechnology Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Surfaces, Coatings and Films Condensed Matter Physics