How to format your references using the Progress in Solid State Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Progress in Solid State Chemistry. 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]

Quirrenbach A. Astronomy. Seeing the surfaces of stars. Science 2007;317:325–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Cyranoski D, Chou I-H. Winds of change blow away the cobwebs on campus. Nature 2004;429:210–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Weber JN, Peterson BK, Hoekstra HE. Discrete genetic modules are responsible for complex burrow evolution in Peromyscus mice. Nature 2013;493:402–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Li L, Checkelsky JG, Hor YS, Uher C, Hebard AF, Cava RJ, et al. Phase transitions of Dirac electrons in bismuth. Science 2008;321:547–50.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Voldman SH. ESD. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Beckmann A, Dimitracopoulos C, Löwe B, editors. Logic and Theory of Algorithms: 4th Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2008, Athens, Greece, June 15-20, 2008 Proceedings. vol. 5028. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Harpe P, Hegt H, van Roermund A. Smart DA Conversion. In: Hegt H, Harpe P, editors. Smart AD and DA Conversion, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010, p. 19–40.

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 Progress in Solid State Chemistry.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. Three New Species Of “Dwarf Dragons” Discovered In South America. IFLScience 2015.

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. Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle: DOD Is Assessing Data on Worldwide Launch Market to Inform New Acquisition Strategy. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Verdi KC. What Does It Mean to Be a Service-Learning Teacher? - An Autoethnography. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 2017.

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]

Crow K. At This Park, There’s No Such Thing as a Free Bench. New York Times 2000:147.

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	Progress in Solid State Chemistry
Abbreviation	Prog. Solid State Chem.
ISSN (print)	0079-6786
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics