How to format your references using the Solid State Communications citation style

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

J.Q. Svejstrup, Transcription. Histones face the FACT, Science 301 (2003) 1053–1055.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P.A. O’Connell, G.B. McKenna, Rheological measurements of the thermoviscoelastic response of ultrathin polymer films, Science 307 (2005) 1760–1763.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

V. Giovannetti, S. Lloyd, L. Maccone, Quantum-enhanced measurements: beating the standard quantum limit, Science 306 (2004) 1330–1336.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K. Lund, A.J. Manzo, N. Dabby, N. Michelotti, A. Johnson-Buck, J. Nangreave, S. Taylor, R. Pei, M.N. Stojanovic, N.G. Walter, E. Winfree, H. Yan, Molecular robots guided by prescriptive landscapes, Nature 465 (2010) 206–210.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

N.C. Karmakar, P. Kalansuriya, R.E. Azim, R. Koswatta, Chipless Radio Frequency Identification Reader Signal Processing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

S.R. Rozbruch, R. c. Hamdy, eds., Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Surgery Case Atlas: Trauma • Foot and Ankle, 1st ed. 2015, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G.D. Peterson, Quality Assurance in the Preparation of Technical Professionals: The ABET Perspective, in: A. Patil, P. Gray (Eds.), Engineering Education Quality Assurance: A Global Perspective, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2009: pp. 73–83.

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 Solid State Communications.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Arctic Warming May Capture More Methane Than It Releases, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/arctic-warming-may-capture-more-methane-it-releases/ (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, Secret Service Has More Computer Capacity Than It Needs, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.E. Harris, A quantitative study of the impact of CFO and auditor turnover on internal control weaknesses, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 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]

M.M. Chapman, This Time, Fiat Chrysler Workers Approve Contract, New York Times (2015) B3.

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	Solid State Communications
Abbreviation	Solid State Commun.
ISSN (print)	0038-1098
Scope	General Chemistry Materials Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics