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

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

Barrett CB. Measuring food insecurity. Science 2010;327:825–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lukas D, Huchard E. Sexual conflict. The evolution of infanticide by males in mammalian societies. Science 2014;346:841–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Jop P, Forterre Y, Pouliquen O. A constitutive law for dense granular flows. Nature 2006;441:727–30.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zhou T-B, Qin Y-H, Lei F-Y, Huang W-F, Drummen GPC. Prohibitin is associated with antioxidative protection in hypoxia/reoxygenation-induced renal tubular epithelial cell injury. Sci Rep 2013;3:3123.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Wang J-J. Hydraulic Fracturing in Earth-Rock Fill DAMS. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons, Singapore Pte. Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Mullin GE, Cheskin LJ, Matarese LE, editors. Integrative Weight Management: A Guide for Clinicians. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Perez-Ruiz F, Herrero-Beites AM. Prevention and Treatment of Inflammation in Gout. In: Herrero-Beites AM, editor. Managing Gout in Primary Care, Tarporley: Springer Healthcare Ltd.; 2014, p. 53–66.

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 Electronics.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. Supercharged Vancomycin Kills Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria. IFLScience 2017.

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. State Department: Progress and Challenges in Addressing Management Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Yamada M. The role of the TRANSPORT INHIBITOR RESPONSE2 (TIR2) gene in auxin synthesis in Arabidopsis. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 2008.

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]

McAULEY J. Breaking the Mold. New York Times 2017:M2128.

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 Electronics
Abbreviation	Solid State Electron.
ISSN (print)	0038-1101
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Materials Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics