How to format your references using the Superlattices and Microstructures citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Superlattices and Microstructures. 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]

K. Postle, Close before opening, Science 295 (2002) 1658–1659.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L.T. Fernández-Martínez, M.J. Bibb, Use of the meganuclease I-SceI of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to select for gene deletions in actinomycetes, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7100.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

F. Donato, S.B. Rompani, P. Caroni, Parvalbumin-expressing basket-cell network plasticity induced by experience regulates adult learning, Nature 504 (2013) 272–276.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

X. Li, Z.D. Deng, Y. Sun, J.J. Martinez, T. Fu, G.A. McMichael, T.J. Carlson, A 3D approximate maximum likelihood solver for localization of fish implanted with acoustic transmitters, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7215.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

V.V. Acharya, T.F. Cooley, M. Richardson, I. Walter, Regulating Wall Street, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

J.C. Augusto, R. Wichert, R. Collier, D. Keyson, A.A. Salah, A.-H. Tan, eds., Ambient Intelligence: 4th International Joint Conference, AmI 2013, Dublin, Ireland, December 3-5, 2013. Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A.I. Fisenko, V.F. Lemberg, Chromaticity Properties of Black-Body Radiation for Different Color Spaces, in: V.F. Lemberg (Ed.), Black-Body Radiative, Thermodynamic, and Chromatic Functions: Tables in Finite Spectral Ranges, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 19–33.

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 Superlattices and Microstructures.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Explainer: What Philae Did In Its 60 hours on Comet 67P, IFLScience (2014).

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, Inquiry Into Allegations of Improprieties at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

H. Li, Improvement of Compressive Strength of Oil Well Cement by Agitation, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2017.

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]

J. Gorman, The Power of the Bumblebee Brain, New York Times (2017) D6.

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	Superlattices and Microstructures
Abbreviation	Superlattices Microstruct.
ISSN (print)	0749-6036
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics