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

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

B. Greene, Q&A: Brian Greene on music and string theory, Nature 465 (2010) 426.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A.Y. Cheung, M. Wu H, Plant biology. Pollen tube guidance--right on target, Science 293 (2001) 1441–1442.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B.E. Lyon, A.S. Chaine, D.W. Winkler, Ecology. A matter of timing, Science 321 (2008) 1051–1052.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B.K. Kaspar, J. Lladó, N. Sherkat, J.D. Rothstein, F.H. Gage, Retrograde viral delivery of IGF-1 prolongs survival in a mouse ALS model, Science 301 (2003) 839–842.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Wei, Great Inventions that Changed the World, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

D. Beneventano, Z. Despotovic, F. Guerra, S. Joseph, G. Moro, A.P. de Pinninck, eds., Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing: 7th International Workshop, AP2PC 2008, Estoril, Portugal, May 13, 2008 and 8th International Workshop, AP2PC 2009, Budapest, Hungary, May 11, 2009. Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Sen, R. Chakraborty, B. De, Prevalence of Diabetes and Its Economic Impact, in: R. Chakraborty, B. De (Eds.), Diabetes Mellitus in 21st Century, Springer, Singapore, 2016: pp. 27–34.

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 Letters.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Romanov Mystery: Can Digging Up 100-Year-Old Bodies Help Crack Unsolved Murders?, 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, Joint Strike Fighter: Strong Risk Management Essential as Program Enters Most Challenging Phase, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.W. Kim, Perceptually motivated automatic dance motion generation for music, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2009.

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]

L. Greenhouse, The Facts Win Out on Abortion, New York Times (2016) 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	Solid State Electronics Letters
ISSN (print)	2589-2088
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