How to format your references using the Journal of Solid State Lighting citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Solid State Lighting. 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

Wickelgren I (2000) HYPERTENSION: Mutation Points to Salt Recycling Pathway. Science 289:23b–6b

A journal article with 2 authors

Field J, Fullagar R (2001) Archaeology and Australian megafauna. Science 294:7

A journal article with 3 authors

Bai G, Zhang Y, Hao J (2014) Tuning of near-infrared luminescence of SrTiO3:Ni2+ thin films grown on piezoelectric PMN-PT via strain engineering. Sci Rep 4:5724

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Boulanger MJ, Chow D-C, Brevnova EE, Garcia KC (2003) Hexameric structure and assembly of the interleukin-6/IL-6 alpha-receptor/gp130 complex. Science 300:2101–2104

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rochange C, Uhrig S, Sainrat P (2013) Time-Predictable Architectures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Sidharth BG, Honsell F, de Angelis A (2006) Frontiers of Fundamental Physics: Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium “Frontiers of Fundamental and Computational Physics”, Udine, Italy, 26–29 September 2004. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Yoshiuchi K (2014) Momentary Measurement of Psychosocial Factors. In: Dollard MF, Shimazu A, Bin Nordin R, et al (eds) Psychosocial Factors at Work in the Asia Pacific. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 117–125

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 Solid State Lighting.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Researchers Use Genetic Switch To Reverse Leukemia In Mice. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-use-genetic-switch-reverse-leukemia-mice/. 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 (1990) Railroad Safety: New Approach Needed for Effective FRA Safety Inspection Program. 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

Lieberman DS (2017) “Stroke Your Thoroughbreds and Kick Your Donkeys”: Power and the Secondary Administrative Distribution of Teaching Assignments. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Greenhouse L (2010) Breathing While Undocumented. New York Times A23

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 Solid State Lighting
Abbreviation	J. Solid State Light.
ISSN (online)	2196-1107
Scope