How to format your references using the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeXBibTeX 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]
K. M. Fischer, “Waning buoyancy in the crustal roots of old mountains,” Nature, vol. 417, no. 6892, pp. 933–936, Jun. 2002.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
D. Baker and A. Sali, “Protein structure prediction and structural genomics,” Science, vol. 294, no. 5540, pp. 93–96, Oct. 2001.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
B. M. Lake, R. Salakhutdinov, and J. B. Tenenbaum, “Human-level concept learning through probabilistic program induction,” Science, vol. 350, no. 6266, pp. 1332–1338, Dec. 2015.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
[1]
M. B. Torchinsky, J. Garaude, A. P. Martin, and J. M. Blander, “Innate immune recognition of infected apoptotic cells directs T(H)17 cell differentiation,” Nature, vol. 458, no. 7234, pp. 78–82, Mar. 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
S. U. Raymond, Recession, Recovery, and Renewal: Long-Term Nonprofit Strategies for Rapid Economic Change. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.
An edited book
[1]
R. Eibl, Cell and Tissue Reaction Engineering: With a Contribution by Martin Fussenegger and Wilfried Weber. in Principles and Practice. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
L. Maggiori and Y. Panis, “Low Anterior Resection and Total Mesorectal Excision,” in Single Incision Laparoscopic and Transanal Colorectal Surgery, W. L. Law and C. P. Delaney, Eds., New York, NY: Springer, 2014, pp. 35–40.

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 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine.

Blog post
[1]
J. Fang, “Cancer Hijacks the Cell’s Aging Process,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/cancer-hijacks-cells-aging-process/

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, “National Airspace System: Transformation will Require Cultural Change, Balanced Funding Priorities, and Use of All Available Management Tools,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-06-154, Oct. 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
J. T. Bernstine, “Experiences of Students Transferring from Community and Technical Colleges to a Private Nonprofit University,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2015.

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. F. Kovaleski, “Supervisors Of Gunman Were Told Of Issues,” New York Times, p. A10, Oct. 05, 2013.

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 titleIEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine
ISSN (print)1943-0582
ScopeElectrical and Electronic Engineering

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