How to format your references using the Modern Electronic Materials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Modern Electronic Materials. 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

[1]

J.C. Venter, Genome-sequencing anniversary. The human genome at 10: successes and challenges, Science 331 (2011) 546–547.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. Chouard, N. Gray, Glia, Nature 468 (2010) 213.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H. Taniguchi, J. Lu, Z.J. Huang, The spatial and temporal origin of chandelier cells in mouse neocortex, Science 339 (2013) 70–74.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D.D. Gandhi, M. Lane, Y. Zhou, A.P. Singh, S. Nayak, U. Tisch, M. Eizenberg, G. Ramanath, Annealing-induced interfacial toughening using a molecular nanolayer, Nature 447 (2007) 299–302.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B. Zhang, X. Wang, Chaos Analysis and Chaotic EMI Suppression of DC-DC Converters, John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

M. Pohlmann, J. Yang, J.-H. Lee, eds., Citizenship and Migration in the Era of Globalization: The Flow of Migrants and the Perception of Citizenship in Asia and Europe, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Moraitis, C.A. Stratakis, The Role of Genetics in the Development of Familial Nonmedullary Thyroid Cancer, in: L. Wartofsky, D. Van Nostrand (Eds.), Thyroid Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Management, Springer, New York, NY, 2016: pp. 43–70.

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 Modern Electronic Materials.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Doctors have cleared second baby of HIV, IFLScience (2014).

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, Title 6--NAD Electronic Signature, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L.M. Mills, A mentoring program for foster youth transitioning into adulthood: A grant proposal, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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]

M. Kelly, Underneath the Tire Treads, New York Times (1972) GREATER NEW YORK AUTOMOBILE SHOWA15.

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	Modern Electronic Materials
ISSN (print)	2452-1779
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