How to format your references using the Journal of Display Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Display Technology. 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

[1]

A. Abbott, “Space-station airlock to serve as temporary lab,” Nature, vol. 405, no. 6782, p. 7, May 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. Goto and H. Uchikawa, “Fault-tolerant quantum computation with a soft-decision decoder for error correction and detection by teleportation,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 2044, 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

K. H. Wang, A. Penmatsa, and E. Gouaux, “Neurotransmitter and psychostimulant recognition by the dopamine transporter,” Nature, vol. 521, no. 7552, pp. 322–327, May 2015.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Yang, W. Rigdon, X. Huang, and X. Li, “Enhancing graphene reinforcing potential in composites by hydrogen passivation induced dispersion,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 2086, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Memming, Semiconductor Electrochemistry. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

R. D. Goodman and P. C. Gorski, Eds., Decolonizing “Multicultural” Counseling through Social Justice. in International and Cultural Psychology. New York, NY: Springer, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T. Buthelezi, “IsiZulu Language and the Ilanga Newspaper as Catalysts for Participatory Democracy in South Africa,” in Indigenous Language Media, Language Politics and Democracy in Africa, A. Salawu and M. B. Chibita, Eds., London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016, pp. 59–86.

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 Journal of Display Technology.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, “Irradiated Monkeys Showing Fukushima Effects,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/irradiated-monkeys-showing-fukushima-effects/

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, “Charter Schools: Oversight Practices in the District of Columbia,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-05-490, May 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L. P. Lovejoy, “On the control of selective attention in the primate superior colliculus,” Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 2010.

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. Bidgood and J. Schwartz, “Hurricane Nate Hits Gulf Coast Region Still Recovering From Katrina,” New York Times, p. A18, Oct. 07, 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	Journal of Display Technology
Abbreviation	J. Display Technol.
ISSN (print)	1551-319X
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Condensed Matter Physics