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]

Wang S. Journal club. A neuroscientist explores the energy efficiency of the brain. Nature 2009;461:851.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Saykally RJ, Wales DJ. Chemistry. Pinning down the water hexamer. Science 2012;336:814–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Park ST, Kim SK, Kim MS. Observation of conformation-specific pathways in the photodissociation of 1-iodopropane ions. Nature 2002;415:306–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lee W-J, Ma JW, Bae JM, Jeong K-S, Cho M-H, Kang C, et al. Strongly enhanced THz emission caused by localized surface charges in semiconducting Germanium nanowires. Sci Rep 2013;3:1984.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Weinstein S. The Complete Guide to Fundraising Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Allen J, van der Velden R, editors. The Flexible Professional in the Knowledge Society: New Challenges for Higher Education. vol. 35. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Králová-Hromadová I, Juhásová L, Bazsalovicsová E. Modern Approaches in Fascioloides magna Studies. In: Juhásová Ľ, Bazsalovicsová E, editors. The Giant Liver Fluke, Fascioloides magna: Past, Present and Future Research, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 81–104.

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]

Fang J. Researchers Achieve Record-Smashing Wireless Connection Speeds. 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. Crop Insurance: Savings Would Result from Program Changes and Greater Use of Data Mining. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Williams CD. Playing the Hungarian card: An assessment of radical right impact on Slovak and Hungarian party systems and post-Communist democratic stability. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina, 2013.

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]

Rothenberg B. Skipping the French Open Is a Strategy That Fits a Unique Player. New York Times 2017:B7.

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