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

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

Sarewitz D (2013) Science’s rightful place is in service of society. Nature 502:595

A journal article with 2 authors

Byrne CJ, Eldrup M (2008) Materials science. Bulk metallic glasses. Science 321:502–503

A journal article with 3 authors

Collins FS, Gray GM, Bucher JR (2008) Toxicology. Transforming environmental health protection. Science 319:906–907

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Rutgers LV, van der Borg K, de Jong AFM, Poole I (2005) Radiocarbon dating: Jewish inspiration of Christian catacombs. Nature 436:339

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Geren RL (2016) Applying the Building Code. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Wendt K (2015) Responsible Investment Banking: Risk Management Frameworks, Sustainable Financial Innovation and Softlaw Standards. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Holleis P, Schmidt A (2008) MakeIt: Integrate User Interaction Times in the Design Process of Mobile Applications. In: Indulska J, Patterson DJ, Rodden T, Ott M (eds) Pervasive Computing: 6th International Conference, Pervasive 2008 Sydney, Australia, May 19-22, 2008 Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 56–74

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 Electrochemistry.

Blog post

Andrews R (2017) Oklahoma Is One Of 2017’s Most High-Risk State For Earthquakes. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/fracking-has-made-oklahoma-2017s-most-highrisk-state-for-earthquakes/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2001) Performance and Accountability: Challenges Facing the Department of Transportation. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Schultz SM (2010) Interpreting the assemblages of Lonnie Holley through his performative explanations. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Kanter J (2017) Under Trump, U.S. Is Now a Threat to Europe’s Stability, Leader Warns. New York Times A13

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 Electrochemistry
Abbreviation	J. Solid State Electrochem.
ISSN (print)	1432-8488
ISSN (online)	1433-0768
Scope	Electrochemistry Electrical and Electronic Engineering General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics