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

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

Jorde LB (2005) Evolution. Where we’re hot, they’re not. Science 308:60–62

A journal article with 2 authors

Houweling AR, Brecht M (2008) Behavioural report of single neuron stimulation in somatosensory cortex. Nature 451:65–68

A journal article with 3 authors

Baluska F, Volkmann D, Barlow PW (2004) Cell bodies in a cage. Nature 428:371

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Terry I, Walter GH, Moore C, et al (2007) Odor-mediated push-pull pollination in cycads. Science 318:70

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hanzo L, Maunder RG, Wang J, Yang L-L (2010) Near-Capacity Variable-Length Coding. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Wang D (2013) Model-based Health Monitoring of Hybrid Systems. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Heraty JM, Polaszek A, Schauff ME (2008) Systematics and Biology of Encarsia. In: Gould J, Hoelmer K, Goolsby J (eds) Classical Biological Control of Bemisia tabaci in the United States - A Review of Interagency Research and Implementation. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 71–87

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 Lighting.

Blog post

Andrew D (2017) Facebook Has a Mysterious Team Working On Tech That Sounds A Lot Like Mind Reading. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/facebook-has-a-mysterious-team-working-on-tech-that-sounds-a-lot-like-mind-reading/. 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 (1976) Contract Award by the Federal Power Commission for Developing and Installing a Regulatory Information System. 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

Dominguez YC (2014) Recruitment, training, and support for foster parents of children birth to 4 years: A grant proposal. 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

Vecsey G (2013) A Stadium In Queens Is No Walk In the Park. New York Times B12

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 Lighting
Abbreviation	J. Solid State Light.
ISSN (online)	2196-1107
Scope