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]

D. Lunt, Palaeoclimate science: Causes and effects of Antarctic ice, Nature 511 (2014) 536–537.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T.C. Quinn, J. Overbaugh, HIV/AIDS in women: an expanding epidemic, Science 308 (2005) 1582–1583.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.J. Sharp, G.C. Rogers, J.M. Scholey, Microtubule motors in mitosis, Nature 407 (2000) 41–47.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

N. Ohtani, Z. Zebedee, T.J. Huot, J.A. Stinson, M. Sugimoto, Y. Ohashi, A.D. Sharrocks, G. Peters, E. Hara, Opposing effects of Ets and Id proteins on p16INK4a expression during cellular senescence, Nature 409 (2001) 1067–1070.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

V. Magnasco, Models for Bonding in Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

M. Ariola, Magnetic Control of Tokamak Plasmas, 2nd ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Brox, I. Baturone, S. Sánchez-Solano, Fuzzy Motion-Adaptive De-Interlacing with Smart Temporal Interpolation, in: I. Baturone, S. Sánchez-Solano (Eds.), Fuzzy Logic-Based Algorithms for Video De-Interlacing, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 143–168.

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]

S. Luntz, Sea Level Rise Could “Save” Reefs From Global Warming, IFLScience (2016).

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, NASA’s Standard Parts Program--Are the Objectives Being Accomplished?, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Sefrit, A study of the effectiveness of a school district’s mentoring /professional development plan for beginning teachers, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 2008.

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, It’s That ’80s Show, New York Times (2017) C6.

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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