How to format your references using the Semiconductor Science and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Semiconductor Science and 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

[1]

Sydnes L K 2013 Policy: Update the Chemical Weapons Convention Nature 496 25–6

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Peterca M and Percec V 2010 Materials science. Recasting metal alloy phases with block copolymers Science 330 333–4

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Stager J C, Day J J and Santini S 2004 Comment on “Origin of the superflock of cichlid fishes from Lake Victoria, East Africa” Science 304 963; author reply 963

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Yang J W, Chandler C, Stadler M, Kampen D and List B 2008 Proline-catalysed Mannich reactions of acetaldehyde Nature 452 453–5

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

You H, Jianjuan X and Xin G 2016 Radar Data Processing with Applications (Singapore: John Wiley &;#38; Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Rapozzi V and Jori G 2015 Resistance to Photodynamic Therapy in Cancer vol 5 (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gazonas G A and Main J A 2007 Air Blast Loading of Cellular Media Experimental Analysis of Nano and Engineering Materials and Structures: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics, Alexandroupolis, Greece, July 1–6, 2007 ed E E Gdoutos (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands) pp 11–2

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 Semiconductor Science and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J 2015 T. Rex Teeth Had A Secret Weapon, And Just One Animal Alive Today Has It Too IFLScience

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

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Government Accountability Office 2006 NASA’s Deep Space Network: Current Management Structure Is Not Conducive to Effectively Matching Resources with Future Requirements (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Boukes J 2012 An exploration of online spam prevention through geolocational filters Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach)

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]

Seligman M E P and Tierney J 2017 We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment New York Times SR1

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	Semiconductor Science and Technology
Abbreviation	Semicond. Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0268-1242
ISSN (online)	1361-6641
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Materials Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics