How to format your references using the International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Baker J. The falcon has landed. Introduction to special issue. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2006; 312(5778):1327.

A journal article with 2 authors

Porcello D, Hsi S. Science education. Crowdsourcing and curating online education resources. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2013; 341(6143):240–241.

A journal article with 3 authors

Furman JL, Murray F, Stern S. More for the research dollar. Nature 2010; 468(7325):757–758.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zheng B, Ma YC, Ostrom RS, Lavoie C, Gill GN, Insel PA, Huang XY, Farquhar MG. RGS-PX1, a GAP for GalphaS and sorting nexin in vesicular trafficking. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2001; 294(5548):1939–1942.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Glasgow LA. Applied Mathematics for Science and Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

Ma M (ed.). Communication Systems and Information Technology: Selected Papers from the 2011 International Conference on Electric and Electronics (EEIC 2011) in Nanchang, China on June 20-22, 2011, Volume 4. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang Z. Study of System Intuition by Noetic Science Founded by QIAN Xuesen. In: Hu B, Liu J, Chen L, Zhong N (eds). Brain Informatics: International Conference, BI 2011, Lanzhou, China, September 7-9, 2011. Proceedings. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011, pp 28–28.

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 International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications.

Blog post

Andrews R. Millions Of Penguins Are About To Be Smothered By A Volcanic Eruption. IFLScience. 2016.

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

Government Accountability Office. Library of Congress: Strong Leadership Needed to Address Serious Information Technology Management Weaknesses. 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

Reyes J. Connections: A grant proposal for mothers struggling with substance abuse in the child welfare system. 2009.

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

Schmidt MS. In a Private Dinner, Trump Demanded Loyalty. Comey Demurred. New York Times. 2017; : A1.

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	International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications
Abbreviation	Int. J. Circuit Theory Appl.
ISSN (print)	0098-9886
ISSN (online)	1097-007X
Scope	Computer Science Applications Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Applied Mathematics