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]

P.B. Allen, Condensed-matter physics. Misbehaviour in metals, Nature. 405 (2000) 1007–1008.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.D. Pasteris, B. Wopenka, Laser-Raman spectroscopy: images of the Earth’s earliest fossils?, Nature. 420 (2002) 476–7; discussion 477.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P.F. Damasceno, M. Engel, S.C. Glotzer, Predictive self-assembly of polyhedra into complex structures, Science. 337 (2012) 453–457.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

O.F. Mohammed, D. Pines, J. Dreyer, E. Pines, E.T.J. Nibbering, Sequential proton transfer through water bridges in acid-base reactions, Science. 310 (2005) 83–86.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. Jarry, J. Beneat, Advanced Design Techniques and Realizations of Microwave and RF Filters, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2007.

An edited book

[1]

J.-P. Majoral, ed., New Aspects in Phosphorus Chemistry V: -/-, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T. Czachórski, Queueing Models for Performance Evaluation of Computer Networks—Transient State Analysis, in: V.V. Mityushev, M. Ruzhansky (Eds.), Analytic Methods in Interdisciplinary Applications, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 51–80.

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]

S. Luntz, Are Malfunctioning Monitors Underestimating Methane Emissions?, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/are-malfunctioning-monitors-underestimating-methane-emissions/ (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, Assigning Air Traffic Control Costs to Users: Elements of FAA’s Methodology Are Generally Consistent with Standards but Certain Assumptions and Methods Need Additional Support, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T.A. Denz, Performance Evaluation of a Magnetically Enhanced Micro-Cathode Vacuum Arc Thruster, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 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]

G. Vecsey, Decade Later, Waltrip Deals With a Crash At Daytona, New York Times. (2011) B13.

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