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 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]

Stone E C 2001 Planetary science. News from the edge of interstellar space Science 293 55–6

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Sussman M R and Phillips G N Jr 2009 Plant science. How plant cells go to sleep for a long, long time Science 326 1356–7

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Robertson J L, Kolmakova-Partensky L and Miller C 2010 Design, function and structure of a monomeric ClC transporter Nature 468 844–7

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Korou L-M, Agrogiannis G, Koros C, Kitraki E, Vlachos I S, Tzanetakou I, Karatzas T, Pergialiotis V, Dimitroulis D and Perrea D N 2014 Impact of N-acetylcysteine and sesame oil on lipid metabolism and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis homeostasis in middle-aged hypercholesterolemic mice Sci. Rep. 4 6806

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Chernick M R 2011 The Essentials of Biostatistics for Physicians, Nurses, and Clinicians (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Magnani L and Casadio C 2016 Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology: Logical, Epistemological, and Cognitive Issues vol 27 (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lavelli A 2013 An Ensemble Model for the EVALITA 2011 Dependency Parsing Task Evaluation of Natural Language and Speech Tools for Italian: International Workshop, EVALITA 2011, Rome, January 24-25, 2012, Revised Selected Papers Lecture Notes in Computer Science ed B Magnini, F Cutugno, M Falcone and E Pianta (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 30–6

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]

Carpineti A 2017 Tiny Satellites Discover Biggest Stellar Heartbeat 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 1992 Intercollegiate Athletics: Compensation Varies for Selected Personnel in Athletic Departments (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]

Ademiluyi C A 2010 Felony disenfranchisement and how it contributes to the Black electorate Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach)

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]

Belson K and Pilon M 2012 U.S. Ends Trials With Strong Lineup for London New York Times D5

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