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]

D. Goldston, Beware politicians bearing gifts, Nature. 457 (2009) 649.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

F. Martinez, B. Taylor, Mantle wedge control on back-arc crustal accretion, Nature. 416 (2002) 417–420.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.L. Moseley, F. Pulvermüller, Y. Shtyrov, Sensorimotor semantics on the spot: brain activity dissociates between conceptual categories within 150 ms, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1928.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

E.A. Porter, X. Wang, H.S. Lee, B. Weisblum, S.H. Gellman, Non-haemolytic beta-amino-acid oligomers, Nature. 404 (2000) 565.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M.C. Carvalho, Practical Laboratory Automation, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

B. Bhushan, S. Kawata, eds., Applied Scanning Probe Methods VI: Characterization, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T. Xu, D. Close, A. Smartt, S. Ripp, G. Sayler, Detection of Organic Compounds with Whole-Cell Bioluminescent Bioassays, in: G. Thouand, R. Marks (Eds.), Bioluminescence: Fundamentals and Applications in Biotechnology - Volume 1, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014: pp. 111–151.

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, The Pentagon Has A Zombie Apocalypse Emergency Plan, 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, Navigation Systems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K.A. Van Vlack, Puaxant tuvip: Powerlands Southern Paiute cultural landscapes and pilgrimage trails, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 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]

M. Pilon, A Ban on Coed Contact Sports, New York Times. (2014) B19.

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

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