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]

S.A. Rice, Optical control of reactions, Nature 403 (2000) 496–497.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L.J. Guillette Jr, T. Iguchi, Ecology. Life in a contaminated world, Science 337 (2012) 1614–1615.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Venkatesan, C.B. Fitzgerald, J.M.D. Coey, Thin films: unexpected magnetism in a dielectric oxide, Nature 430 (2004) 630.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

F. Parlati, J.A. McNew, R. Fukuda, R. Miller, T.H. Söllner, J.E. Rothman, Topological restriction of SNARE-dependent membrane fusion, Nature 407 (2000) 194–198.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S.M. Bragg, The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Y.-P. Chen, M.-H. Lim, eds., Linkage in Evolutionary Computation, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T.F. Næsje, A.-R. Childs, P.D. Cowley, W.M. Potts, E.B. Thorstad, F. Økland, Movements of undersized spotted grunter (Pomadasys commersonnii) in the Great Fish Estuary, South Africa: implications for fisheries management, in: P.R. Almeida, B.R. Quintella, M.J. Costa, A. Moore (Eds.), Developments in Fish Telemetry: Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Fish Telemetry Held in Europe, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2007: pp. 25–34.

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]

J. Davis, Snakebite Anti-Venom Set To Run Out Next Year, IFLScience (2015).

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, Space Shuttle: Follow-up Evaluation of NASA’s Solid Rocket Motor Procurement, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.H. Jorge, Relationships Among Poverty, Financial Services, Human Capital, Risk Coping, and Natural Resources: Evidence from El Salvador and Bolivia, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2004.

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.R. Oestreich, Lamenting Dead Kings, Spending Sunday at the Pub, 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	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