How to format your references using the Journal of Electrostatics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Electrostatics. 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	Download the output style file
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]

M.B. Plenio, Physics. Less is more, Science 324 (2009) 342–343.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B. Lardner, M. bin Lakim, Animal communication: tree-hole frogs exploit resonance effects, Nature 420 (2002) 475.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Palenzuela, L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling, Dual jets from binary black holes, Science 329 (2010) 927–930.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Borgia, M.B. Borgia, K. Bugge, V.M. Kissling, P.O. Heidarsson, C.B. Fernandes, A. Sottini, A. Soranno, K.J. Buholzer, D. Nettels, B.B. Kragelund, R.B. Best, B. Schuler, Extreme disorder in an ultrahigh-affinity protein complex, Nature 555 (2018) 61–66.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P.I. Good, A Manager’s Guide to the Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

P. Shakarian, Geospatial Abduction: Principles and Practice, Springer, New York, NY, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V. Bolotnikov, A. Kheifets, The Higher Order Carathéodory—Julia Theorem and Related Boundary Interpolation Problems, in: J.A. Ball, Y. Eidelman, J.W. Helton, V. Olshevsky, J. Rovnyak (Eds.), Recent Advances in Matrix and Operator Theory, Birkhäuser, Basel, 2008: pp. 63–102.

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 Electrostatics.

Blog post

[1]

K. Hamilton, Why Time Seems To Go By More Quickly As We Get Older, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/why-time-seems-to-go-by-more-quickly-as-we-get-older/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Information Technology: DOD Needs to Improve Process for Ensuring Interoperability of Telecommunications Switches, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R.S. Caverly, Marketing masculinity: Male identity, boy culture, and the Boy Scouts of America 1900–1940, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

K. Feeney, Kielbasa Kingdom, New York Times (2010) NJ13.

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 Electrostatics
Abbreviation	J. Electrostat.
ISSN (print)	0304-3886
Scope	Biotechnology Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Surfaces, Coatings and Films Condensed Matter Physics