How to format your references using the Journal of Electrical Systems and Information Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Electrical Systems and Information 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

Bouwmeester, D., 2014. Quantum mechanics. The quantum nondemolition derby. Science 344, 1224–1226.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jordan, M.J.T., Kable, S.H., 2012. Chemistry. Roaming reaction pathways along excited states. Science 335, 1054–1055.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kiesel, H., Renz, A., Hasselbach, F., 2002. Observation of Hanbury Brown-Twiss anticorrelations for free electrons. Nature 418, 392–394.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

McGee, A.W., Yang, Y., Fischer, Q.S., Daw, N.W., Strittmatter, S.M., 2005. Experience-driven plasticity of visual cortex limited by myelin and Nogo receptor. Science 309, 2222–2226.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nappi, E., Peskov, V., 2013. Imaging Gaseous Detectors and Their Applications. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Cornelius, K., Hermann, D. (Eds.), 2011. Virtual Worlds and Criminality. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Azócar Fernández, P.I., Buchroithner, M.F., 2014. Tendencies in Contemporary Cartography, in: Buchroithner, M.F. (Ed.), Paradigms in Cartography: An Epistemological Review of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 41–64.

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 Electrical Systems and Information Technology.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2016. Top Pharmaceutical Companies Ranked On How They Are Improving Access To Medicine [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/top-pharmaceutical-companies-ranked-on-how-they-are-improving-access-to-medicine/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1978. Department of Energy’s Consolidation of Information Processing Activities Needs More Attention (No. EMD-78-60). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hawkins, A.J., 2013. Measurement of the spacial distribution of heat exchange in a geothermal analog bedrock site using fiber-otic distributed temperature sensing (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Vecsey, G., 2010. Yankees and Red Sox Make September Meaningful. New York Times B17.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Bouwmeester, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bouwmeester, 2014; Jordan and Kable, 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Jordan and Kable, 2012)
Three or more authors: (McGee et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Electrical Systems and Information Technology
ISSN (print)	2314-7172
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