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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Solid State Sciences. 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.K. Shoichet, Virtual screening of chemical libraries, Nature. 432 (2004) 862–865.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G. Chen, D.V. Goeddel, TNF-R1 signaling: a beautiful pathway, Science. 296 (2002) 1634–1635.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Z.M. Smith, B. Delgutte, A.J. Oxenham, Chimaeric sounds reveal dichotomies in auditory perception, Nature. 416 (2002) 87–90.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Barthelemy, P. Bordin, H. Berestycki, M. Gribaudi, Self-organization versus top-down planning in the evolution of a city, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2153.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P.M. Mather, M. Koch, Computer Processing of Remotely-Sensed Images, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

U. Marti, ed., Gravity, Geoid and Height Systems: Proceedings of the IAG Symposium GGHS2012, October 9-12, 2012, Venice, Italy, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Medrano, L. Beckmann, N. Zimmermann, T. Grundmann, T. Gries, S. Leonhardt, Bioimpedance Spectroscopy with textile Electrodes for a continuous Monitoring Application, in: S. Leonhardt, T. Falck, P. Mähönen (Eds.), 4th International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN 2007): March 26 – 28, 2007 RWTH Aachen University, Germany, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007: pp. 23–28.

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 Sciences.

Blog post

[1]

B. Taub, Religious Experiences Activate Same Brain Pathways As Sex And Drugs, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/religious-experiences-activate-same-brain-pathways-sex-drugs/ (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, Information Technology: Additional OMB and Agency Actions Needed to Ensure Portfolio Savings Are Realized and Effectively Tracked, 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]

E.B. Mahler, Defining career success in the 21st century: A narrative study of intentional work role transitions, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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]

M.J.O. Murphy, By Boat or Rail, East Egg to West, ‘Gatsby’ Beckons, New York Times. (2010) C35.

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 Sciences
Abbreviation	Solid State Sci.
ISSN (print)	1293-2558
Scope	General Chemistry General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics