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

Schneider WH (2013) Philanthropy: the difficult art of giving. Nature 497:311–312

A journal article with 2 authors

Pearson BJ, Doe CQ (2003) Regulation of neuroblast competence in Drosophila. Nature 425:624–628

A journal article with 3 authors

Legrand Y-M, van der Lee A, Barboiu M (2010) Single-crystal X-ray structure of 1,3-dimethylcyclobutadiene by confinement in a crystalline matrix. Science 329:299–302

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Panda S, Sato TK, Castrucci AM, et al (2002) Melanopsin (Opn4) requirement for normal light-induced circadian phase shifting. Science 298:2213–2216

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fränzle S, Markert B, Wünschmann S (2012) Introduction to Environmental Engineering. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Fred A, De Marsico M (2015) Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods: International Conference, ICPRAM 2013 Barcelona, Spain, February 15-18, 2013 Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Klemas VV (2016) Remote Sensing of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation. In: Finkl CW, Makowski C (eds) Seafloor Mapping along Continental Shelves: Research and Techniques for Visualizing Benthic Environments. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 125–140

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 (2015) New Cause Behind Three Mysterious Mass Extinctions Revealed. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/its-elementary-new-cause-behind-three-mysterious-mass-extinctions-revealed/. 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 (1993) Airline Competition: Options For Addressing Financial and Competition Problems. 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

Adaligil E (2010) Electron transfer through self-assembled monolayers of alkaneselenols and alkanethiols on mercury electrode. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Shear MD, Davenport C (2017) World Awaits President’s Decision on U.S. Future in Paris Accord. New York Times A8

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