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

Bourne J (2000) ECOLOGY: Louisiana’s Vanishing Wetlands: Going, Going . Science 289:1860–1863

A journal article with 2 authors

McNamara AK, Zhong S (2005) Thermochemical structures beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean. Nature 437:1136–1139

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim S, Ubel P, De Vries R (2009) Pruning the regulatory tree. Nature 457:534–535

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wang J, Tian Z, Jing J, Fan H (2014) Quantum metrology and estimation of Unruh effect. Sci Rep 4:7195

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Placzek D, Bielecki R, Messing M, Schwarzer F Tunnel (2016) Zielgenau bis ans Ende des Tunnels. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Mugnolo D (2015) Mathematical Technology of Networks: Bielefeld, December 2013. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Biermann E, Ermel C, Taentzer G (2008) Precise Semantics of EMF Model Transformations by Graph Transformation. In: Czarnecki K, Ober I, Bruel J-M, et al (eds) Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: 11th International Conference, MoDELS 2008, Toulouse, France, September 28 - October 3, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 53–67

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

Hale T (2016) Mother Dolphins Sing To Their Babies In The Womb. In: IFLScience. 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 (2007) NASA: Enhanced Use Leasing Program Needs Additional Controls. 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

Hambarsoomian H (2017) Classification of Placental Chorionic Surface Vasculature Network Features Using Machine Learning Techniques. 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) Thrown by Life’s Curveballs, A Star Missed the Signals. New York Times D1

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