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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Solid State Electronics Letters. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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]

J.S. Mattick, Genome-sequencing anniversary. The genomic foundation is shifting, Science 331 (2011) 874.

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]

P.R. Ehrlich, P.M. Kareiva, G.C. Daily, Securing natural capital and expanding equity to rescale civilization, Nature 486 (2012) 68–73.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Liu, X. Liu, D.R. Spring, X. Qian, J. Cui, Z. Xu, Quantitatively mapping cellular viscosity with detailed organelle information via a designed PET fluorescent probe, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5418.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Mattone, N. Vaidya, Cultural Transformations, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

J.-P. Lasota, ed., Astronomy at the Frontiers of Science, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L.-J. Zhao, J. Tang, T.-Y. Chai, Modeling Spectral Data Based on Mutual Information and Kernel Extreme Learning Machines, in: J. Wang, G.G. Yen, M.M. Polycarpou (Eds.), Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2012: 9th International Symposium on Neural Networks, Shenyang, China, July 11-14, 2012. Proceedings, Part I, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 29–36.

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 Letters.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Light Concentrations Make Some Plants Change Sex, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/light-concentrations-make-some-plants-change-sex/ (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, Financial Literacy and Education Commission: Further Progress Needed to Ensure an Effective National Strategy, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Y.-Y.L. Chiu, Multicultural educational policies: A correlational investigation of cultural competencies and feelings of inclusion, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 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]

S. Chumsky, Two Legacies, Now Home to Roost, New York Times (2013) E1.

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 Letters
ISSN (print)	2589-2088
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