How to format your references using the Electronics Letters citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for 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	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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

P. Smaglik, “Biologists officially welcome plan,” Nature, vol. 412, no. 6848, p. 665, Aug. 2001.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Tan and J. Lü, “Characterizing the effect of population heterogeneity on evolutionary dynamics on complex networks,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 5034, May 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B. T. Ho, M. Basler, and J. J. Mekalanos, “Type 6 secretion system-mediated immunity to type 4 secretion system-mediated gene transfer,” Science, vol. 342, no. 6155, pp. 250–253, Oct. 2013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Ramachandran, F. T. Arce, N. R. Patel, A. P. Quist, D. A. Cohen, and R. Lal, “Structure and permeability of ion-channels by integrated AFM and waveguide TIRF microscopy,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 4424, Mar. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. A. Campbell, The One-Page Project Manager for it Projects. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2008.

An edited book

[1]

K. Raiser, Ed., Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts on Religion, vol. 24. in SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, vol. 24. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

O. Gheysens and S. S. Gambhir, “Studying molecular and cellular processes in the intact organism,” in Imaging in Drug Discovery and Early Clinical Trials, P. L. Herrling, A. Matter, and M. Rudin, Eds., in Progress in Drug Research. , Basel: Birkhäuser, 2005, pp. 117–150.

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 Electronics Letters.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, “Giving Seaweed To Cattle Could Bring A Stop To Belch-Based Climate Change,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/giving-seaweed-cattle-stop-belchbased-climate-change/

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, “Proprietary Schools: Improved Department of Education Oversight Needed to Help Ensure Only Eligible Students Receive Federal Student Aid,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-10-127T, Oct. 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. A. Gomes, “Cognitive science approaches to actor training: Interrogating conceptual language,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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. R. Quain, “Your Car May Soon Be Able to Read Your Face,” New York Times, p. B6, Apr. 06, 2017.

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], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Electronics Letters
Abbreviation	Electron. Lett.
ISSN (print)	0013-5194
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering