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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Semiconductors. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

Buckholtz N S 2011 Perspective: in search of biomarkers Nature 475 S8

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Enemark E J and Joshua-Tor L 2006 Mechanism of DNA translocation in a replicative hexameric helicase Nature 442 270–5

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Serizawa T, Hamada K-I and Akashi M 2004 Polymerization within a molecular-scale stereoregular template Nature 429 52–5

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Riebesell U, Bellerby R G J, Engel A, Fabry V J, Hutchins D A, Reusch T B H, Schulz K G and Morel F M M 2008 Comment on “Phytoplankton calcification in a high-CO2 world” Science 322 1466; author reply 1466

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hoschette J A 2010 The Engineer’s Career Guide (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Scerri P, Vincent R and Mailler R 2006 Coordination of Large-Scale Multiagent Systems (Boston, MA: Springer US)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kang K, Zhang J, Cao Y and Wang Z 2015 Simultaneously Retargeting and Super-Resolution for Stereoscopic Video Computer Vision: CCF Chinese Conference, CCCV 2015, Xi’an, China, September 18-20, 2015, Proceedings, Part II Communications in Computer and Information Science ed H Zha, X Chen, L Wang and Q Miao (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 31–40

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 Semiconductors.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J 2016 Thai Police Charge 22 People From The Tiger Temple With Wildlife Trafficking IFLScience

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 1973 Advanced Airborne Command Post Program (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Couch H C 2017 Providers’ Acceptance of Smartphone Applications as a Supportive Strategy for Adolescent Asthma Doctoral dissertation (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona)

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]

(nyt) S K 2004 World Briefing | Europe: Russia, Georgia: Tension Over Ossetia New York Times A6

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 Semiconductors
Abbreviation	J. Semicond.
ISSN (print)	1674-4926
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Materials Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics