How to format your references using the Solid State Communications citation style

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

C.A. Griffith, Solar system: Not just a storm in a teacup, Nature 514 (2014) 40–41.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Y.B. Sirotin, A. Das, Anticipatory haemodynamic signals in sensory cortex not predicted by local neuronal activity, Nature 457 (2009) 475–479.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.A. Zwieniecki, P.J. Melcher, N.M. Michele Holbrook, Hydrogel control of xylem hydraulic resistance in plants, Science 291 (2001) 1059–1062.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Cohen-Armon, L. Visochek, A. Katzoff, D. Levitan, A.J. Susswein, R. Klein, M. Valbrun, J.H. Schwartz, Long-term memory requires polyADP-ribosylation, Science 304 (2004) 1820–1822.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.R. Paschedag, CFD in der Verfahrenstechnik, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2004.

An edited book

[1]

L.F. Darling, G. Erickson, A. Clarke, eds., Collective Improvisation in a Teacher Education Community, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.E. Mason, I. Traoré, I. Woungang, Feature Extraction, in: I. Traoré, I. Woungang (Eds.), Machine Learning Techniques for Gait Biometric Recognition: Using the Ground Reaction Force, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 53–87.

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 Solid State Communications.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Chimps Use Spears To Hunt, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/innovative-female-chimps-may-have-pioneered-tool-use-hunting/ (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, Older Adults: Federal Strategy Needed to Help Ensure Efficient and Effective Delivery of Home and Community-Based Services and Supports, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2015.

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. Pikiewicz, I never knew I had expectations until I realized they weren’t going to come true: A grounded theory study of mothering a chronically ill child, Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 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]

B. Brantley, Sam Shepard, Whose Plays Forged a New Frontier, Dies at 73, New York Times (2017) A1.

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	Solid State Communications
Abbreviation	Solid State Commun.
ISSN (print)	0038-1098
Scope	General Chemistry Materials Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics