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]

Rauchfuss T B 2007 Chemistry. A promising mimic of hydrogenase activity Science 316 553–4

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Beroza G C and Ide S 2009 Geophysics. Deep tremors and slow quakes Science 324 1025–6

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Verma T, Araújo N A M and Herrmann H J 2014 Revealing the structure of the world airline network Sci. Rep. 4 5638

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Morizane R, Fujii S, Monkawa T, Hiratsuka K, Yamaguchi S, Homma K and Itoh H 2014 miR-34c attenuates epithelial-mesenchymal transition and kidney fibrosis with ureteral obstruction Sci. Rep. 4 4578

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hansen S, Pedersen-Bjergaard S and Rasmussen K 2011 Introduction to Pharmaceutical Chemical Analysis (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Lammert E and Zeeb M 2014 Metabolism of Human Diseases: Organ Physiology and Pathophysiology (Vienna: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Seegenschmiedt M H and Schäfer U 2008 Clinical Principles Radiotherapy for Non-Malignant Disorders Medical Radiology ed M H Seegenschmiedt, H-B Makoski, K-R Trott and L W Brady (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 89–119

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

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Andrew E 2015 The Pale Blue Dot And Other ‘Selfies’ Of Earth 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

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Government Accountability Office 1988 Space Science: Status of the Hubble Space Telescope 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]

Chakravarty S 2009 Harvesting health: Fertilizer, nutrition and AIDS treatment in Kenya Doctoral dissertation (New York, NY: Columbia 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

[1]

Schmidt M S and Haberman M 2017 Sessions, Shamed by President Over Inquiry, Was Set to Resign New York Times A1

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