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

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

Smol JP. Climate Change: A planet in flux. Nature 2012;483:S12-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Webb J, Domanski M. Paleontology. Fire and stone. Science 2009;325:820–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Malinowski JT, Sharpe RJ, Johnson JS. Enantioselective synthesis of pactamycin, a complex antitumor antibiotic. Science 2013;340:180–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Gerlach D, Guo Y, De Castro C, Kim S-H, Schlatterer K, Xu F-F, et al. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus alters cell wall glycosylation to evade immunity. Nature 2018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Williams P. Managing Measurement Risk in Building and Civil Engineering. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Hui LCK, Qing SH, Shi E, Yiu SM, editors. Information and Communications Security: 16th International Conference, ICICS 2014, Hong Kong, China, December 16-17, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 8958. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Wang L. A Constitutional Review of the Division of Fiscal Responsibilities Between Central and Local Governments. In: Liu X, editor. Public Budgeting Reform in China: Theory and Practice, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015, p. 81–95.

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 Electronics.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. Here’s How To Watch The Harvest Moon Eclipse Tonight. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/here-s-how-to-watch-the-harvest-moon-eclipse-tonight/ (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. Airlift Requirements: Commercial Freighters Can Help Meet Requirements at Greatly Reduced Costs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Watson KL. Putting together the pieces of a social cognition deficit: A retrospective case study. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Koblin J. Fox News Rivals See A Chance To Move In. New York Times 2017:B1.

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 Electronics
Abbreviation	Solid State Electron.
ISSN (print)	0038-1101
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Materials Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics