How to format your references using the Organic Electronics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Organic Electronics. 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]

R.A. Jorgensen, Plant science. A window on the sophistication of plants, Science 333 (2011) 1103–1104.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. Herzberg, E. Gazel, Petrological evidence for secular cooling in mantle plumes, Nature 458 (2009) 619–622.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Burga, M.O. Casanueva, B. Lehner, Predicting mutation outcome from early stochastic variation in genetic interaction partners, Nature 480 (2011) 250–253.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C.L.P. Pavithra, B.V. Sarada, K.V. Rajulapati, T.N. Rao, G. Sundararajan, A new electrochemical approach for the synthesis of copper-graphene nanocomposite foils with high hardness, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4049.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

V.O. Safonov, Using Aspect-Oriented Programming for Trustworthy Software Development, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2007.

An edited book

[1]

G. Lollino, M. Arattano, M. Giardino, R. Oliveira, S. Peppoloni, eds., Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 7: Education, Professional Ethics and Public Recognition of Engineering Geology, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M.A. Naeem, G. Dobbie, G. Weber, X-HYBRIDJOIN for Near-Real-Time Data Warehousing, in: A.A.A. Fernandes, A.J.G. Gray, K. Belhajjame (Eds.), Advances in Databases: 28th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 28, Manchester, UK, July 12-14, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 33–47.

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 Organic Electronics.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, NASA Successfully Tests 3D-Printed Rocket Parts, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/3d-printed-rocket-parts-no-different-traditionally-made-parts/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, DOT’s Restructuring: Limited Progress in Streamlining Field Office Structure, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Doddick, Noncontact 2D Plethysmography: A non-invasive technique for monitoring dynamic trends in a respiratory system, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

S. Firer, Repetition Works for the Moon, New York Times (2017) MM15.

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	Organic Electronics
Abbreviation	Org. Electron.
ISSN (print)	1566-1199
Scope	General Chemistry Electrical and Electronic Engineering Biomaterials Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Materials Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics