How to format your references using the Journal of Solid State Chemistry citation style

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

S. Pääbo, The mosaic that is our genome, Nature 421 (2003) 409–412.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Ramesh, D.G. Schlom, Materials science. Orienting ferroelectric films, Science 296 (2002) 1975–1976.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. Liu, S. Spasojevic, M. Gurnis, Reconstructing Farallon plate subduction beneath North America back to the Late Cretaceous, Science 322 (2008) 934–938.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Block, D. Ackermann, K. Blaum, C. Droese, M. Dworschak, S. Eliseev, T. Fleckenstein, E. Haettner, F. Herfurth, F.P. Hessberger, S. Hofmann, J. Ketelaer, J. Ketter, H.-J. Kluge, G. Marx, M. Mazzocco, Y.N. Novikov, W.R. Plass, A. Popeko, S. Rahaman, D. Rodríguez, C. Scheidenberger, L. Schweikhard, P.G. Thirolf, G.K. Vorobyev, C. Weber, Direct mass measurements above uranium bridge the gap to the island of stability, Nature 463 (2010) 785–788.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

F. Stafford, Reading Romantic Poetry, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

G. Galloro, ed., Endoscopic Follow-up of Digestive Anastomosis, Springer, Milano, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S.S. ur Rahman, E. Schallehn, G. Saake, ECOS: Evolutionary Column-Oriented Storage, in: A.A.A. Fernandes, A.J.G. Gray, K. Belhajjame (Eds.), Advances in Databases: 28th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 28, Manchester, UK, July 12-14, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 18–32.

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 Solid State Chemistry.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Bee Battles: Why Our Native Pollinators Are Losing The War, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bee-battles-why-our-native-pollinators-are-losing-war/ (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, Federal Information Systems Remain Highly Vulnerable to Fraudulent, Wasteful, Abusive, and Illegal Practices, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T.J. RinconGallardo, The effect of the use of learning journals on the development of metacognition in undergraduate students, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 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]

J. Poniewozik, Sex, Drugs and Archie, New York Times (2017) C2.

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 Solid State Chemistry
Abbreviation	J. Solid State Chem.
ISSN (print)	0022-4596
Scope	Inorganic Chemistry Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Ceramics and Composites Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Materials Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics