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]

Maynard AD. Don’t define nanomaterials. Nature 2011;475:31.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Matzke MA, Matzke AJ. Cloning problems don’t surprise plant biologists. Science 2000;288:2318b.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Stern P, Hines PJ, Travis J. The aging brain. Introduction. Science 2014;346:566–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Beste C, Stock A-K, Ness V, Hoffmann R, Lukas C, Saft C. A novel cognitive-neurophysiological state biomarker in premanifest Huntington’s disease validated on longitudinal data. Sci Rep 2013;3:1797.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Gasser W, Heiner E, Elk K. Greensche Funktionen in Festkörper- und Vielteilchenphysik. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Kaminski M, Martini S, editors. Computer Science Logic: 22nd International Workshop, CSL 2008, 17th Annual Conference of the EACSL, Bertinoro, Italy, September 16-19, 2008. Proceedings. vol. 5213. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Acker JF, Berkels B, Bredies K, Diallo MS, Droske M, Garbe CS, et al. Inverse Problems and Parameter Identification in Image Processing. In: Dahlhaus R, Kurths J, Maass P, Timmer J, editors. Mathematical Methods in Signal Processing and Digital Image Analysis, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 111–51.

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]

Andrew E. World First: Scientists Modify The Genomes Of Human Embryos. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/world-first-scientists-modify-genomes-human-embryos/ (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. Performance Appraisal Information From Selected Federal Agencies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Allen EL. Teacher Evaluation and Student Achievement in Elementary Education. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood University, 2015.

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]

Sisario B. The Weeknd Remains at No. 1 on the Charts. New York Times 2017:C3.

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