How to format your references using the Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications. 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

Webb, S. Science Careers. Covering the Planet with Solar Panels. Science 2007, 315, 869.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ahmed, S.; Hodgkin, J. MRT-2 Checkpoint Protein Is Required for Germline Immortality and Telomere Replication in C. Elegans. Nature 2000, 403, 159–164.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dian, B.C.; Longarte, A.; Zwier, T.S. Conformational Dynamics in a Dipeptide after Single-Mode Vibrational Excitation. Science 2002, 296, 2369–2373.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Spehr, M.; Gisselmann, G.; Poplawski, A.; Riffell, J.A.; Wetzel, C.H.; Zimmer, R.K.; Hatt, H. Identification of a Testicular Odorant Receptor Mediating Human Sperm Chemotaxis. Science 2003, 299, 2054–2058.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Charalambides, C.A. Discrete Q-Distributions; John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ, 2016; ISBN 9781119119128.

An edited book

International Handbook of Career Guidance; Athanasou, J.A., Esbroeck, R.V., Eds.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2008; ISBN 9781402062292.

A chapter in an edited book

Morrison, S.A. The Gift. In Go Where You Belong: Male Teachers as Cultural Workers in the Lives of Children, Families, and Communities; Watson, L.W., Woods, C.S., Eds.; SensePublishers: Rotterdam, 2011; pp. 33–38 ISBN 9789460914065.

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 Low Power Electronics and Applications.

Blog post

Fang, J. Could There Be Earth Fossils On The Moon? Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/could-there-be-earth-fossils-could-survive-impact-moon/ (accessed on 30 October 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 College Savings: Information on State Tuition Prepayment Programs; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1995;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Simon-Owens, N.L. Southern Virginia Higher Education Center: An Exploration of Factors Affecting Organizational Leadership. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ, 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

Vlasic, B.; Chapman, M.M. U.A.W. Plans to Re-Engage Fiat Chrysler. New York Times 2015, B7.

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 Low Power Electronics and Applications
ISSN (online)	2079-9268
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