How to format your references using the Progress in Solid State Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Progress in Solid State Chemistry. 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]

Kogleck L. Building a powerhouse. Nature 2015;528:S166-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Phan RT, Dalla-Favera R. The BCL6 proto-oncogene suppresses p53 expression in germinal-centre B cells. Nature 2004;432:635–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Meng Y, Tanaka S, Poon C-S. Comment on “Universality in the evolution of orientation columns in the visual cortex.” Science 2012;336:413; author reply 413.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kim H-D, Yun MJ, Lee JH, Kim KH, Kim TG. Transparent multi-level resistive switching phenomena observed in ITO/RGO/ITO memory cells by the sol-gel dip-coating method. Sci Rep 2014;4:4614.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Martindale W. Global Food Security and Supply. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Cai Y, editor. 3D Immersive and Interactive Learning. Singapore: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Fontaine F, Debray B, Salvi O. Protection of Hazardous Installations and Critical Infrastructures - Complementarity of Safety and Security Approaches. In: Linkov I, Wenning RJ, Kiker GA, editors. Managing Critical Infrastructure Risks: Decision Tools and Applications for Port Security, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007, p. 65–78.

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 Progress in Solid State Chemistry.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. Well Preserved Fossilized Flying Reptile Eggs Found. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/well-preserved-fossilized-flying-reptile-eggs-found/ (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. Space Acquisitions: DOD Needs a Departmentwide Strategy for Pursuing Low-Cost, Responsive Tactical Space Capabilities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Spralja KP. The intersections of culture and business: An ethnographic study of multicultural second generation young entrepreneurs. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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]

Hodara S. Where Paintings Have Overtaken Pixels. New York Times 2016:CT9.

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	Progress in Solid State Chemistry
Abbreviation	Prog. Solid State Chem.
ISSN (print)	0079-6786
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics