How to format your references using the Journal of Electronic Testing citation style

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

Elliott T (2014) Planetary science. Speed metal. Science 344:1086–1087

A journal article with 2 authors

Voytas DF, Joung JK (2009) Plant science. DNA binding made easy. Science 326:1491–1492

A journal article with 3 authors

Vohs KD, Mead NL, Goode MR (2006) The psychological consequences of money. Science 314:1154–1156

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yuan X, Arkonac DE, Chao P-HG, Vunjak-Novakovic G (2014) Electrical stimulation enhances cell migration and integrative repair in the meniscus. Sci Rep 4:3674

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lynn PA (2010) Electricity from Sunlight. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Yadav BS, Mohan M (2011) Ancient Indian Leaps into Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Gama V, Almeida M (2009) Metallocenium Salts of Transition Metal Bisdichalcogenate Anions; Structure and Magnetic Properties. In: Fourmigué M, Ouahab L (eds) Conducting and Magnetic Organometallic Molecular Materials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 97–140

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 Electronic Testing.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) New Horizons’ Close Encounter with Pluto will Reveal its Icy Secrets. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1992) [Comments on Cincinnati Airport Bond Issue]. 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

Goshin LS (2010) Behavior Problems and Competence in Preschoolers Who Spent Their First One to Eighteen Months in a Prison Nursery Program. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University

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

Longman J, Pilon M (2012) Saudi Arabia May Send Women to Olympics. New York Times B11

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	Journal of Electronic Testing
Abbreviation	J. Electron. Test.
ISSN (print)	0923-8174
ISSN (online)	1573-0727
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering