How to format your references using the Journal of The Electrochemical Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of The Electrochemical Society (JES). 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. P. A. Rona, Science, 299, 673–674 (2003).

A journal article with 2 authors

1. A. P. Tran and J. Silver, Science, 348, 285–286 (2015).

A journal article with 3 authors

1. L. Coultas, K. Chawengsaksophak, and J. Rossant, Nature, 438, 937–945 (2005).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

1. T. M. Knight, M. W. McCoy, J. M. Chase, K. A. McCoy, and R. D. Holt, Nature, 437, 880–883 (2005).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. R. F. Barron and B. R. Barron, Design for Thermal Stresses, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, (2011).

An edited book

1. V. Bonato, C. Bouganis, and M. Gorgon, Eds., Applied Reconfigurable Computing: 12th International Symposium, ARC 2016 Mangaratiba, RJ, Brazil, March 22–24, 2016 Proceedings, 1st ed. 2016., p. XIV, 370 p. 195 illus. in color, Springer International Publishing, Cham, (2016).

A chapter in an edited book

1. S. Litster and N. Djilali, in Mini-Micro Fuel Cells: Fundamentals and Applications, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. S. Kakaç, A. Pramuanjaroenkij, and L. Vasiliev, Editors, p. 47–74, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2008).

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 The Electrochemical Society.

Blog post

1. D. Andrew, IFLScience (2015) https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/top-10-insane-unexplained-scientific-discoveries/.

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, Airport Noise Grants: FAA Needs to Better Ensure Project Eligibility and Improve Strategic Goal and Performance Measures, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (2012).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. S. Nagarajan, thesis, George Washington University, Washington, DC (2009).

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, New York Times, C6 (2017).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 The Electrochemical Society
Abbreviation	J. Electrochem. Soc.
ISSN (print)	0013-4651
ISSN (online)	1945-7111
Scope	Electrochemistry Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Materials Chemistry Surfaces, Coatings and Films Condensed Matter Physics