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

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

B. Wehrli, Biogeochemistry: Conduits of the carbon cycle, Nature 503 (2013) 346–347.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Bergink, S. Jentsch, Principles of ubiquitin and SUMO modifications in DNA repair, Nature 458 (2009) 461–467.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

F.-Z. Teng, N. Dauphas, R.T. Helz, Iron isotope fractionation during magmatic differentiation in Kilauea Iki lava lake, Science 320 (2008) 1620–1622.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B. Liu, W. Xie, H. Li, Y. Wang, D. Cai, D. Wang, L. Wang, Y. Liu, Q. Li, T. Wang, Surrounding sensitive electronic properties of Bi₂Te₃ nanoplates-potential sensing applications of topological insulators, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4639.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Segura, C.F. Hawkins, CMOS Electronics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

N. Campi, Automating Linux and Unix System Administration, Second Edition, Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Koulaouzidis, S. Douglas, J.N. Plevris, Oesophageal Capsule Endoscopy, in: Z. Li, Z. Liao, M. McAlindon (Eds.), Handbook of Capsule Endoscopy, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014: pp. 119–128.

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 Ionics.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, An Astronaut’s View Of Mount Etna’s Recent Volcanic Eruption, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/an-astronauts-view-of-mount-etnas-recent-volcanic-eruption/ (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, Inspectors General: Alleged Misconduct by NASA Inspector General, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

G.W. Kolaski, Cultural awareness and the U.S. military advisor in the Arab Middle East: A phenomenological study, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2010.

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]

G. Vecsey, Education of a Point Guard Comes Full Circle, New York Times (2010) B18.

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 Ionics
Abbreviation	Solid State Ion.
ISSN (print)	0167-2738
Scope	General Chemistry General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics