How to format your references using the Annual Review of Physical Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Physical 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

Koenig R. 2000. IRANIAN SCIENCE: Earthquake Researchers Prepare for the Next Big One. Science. 290(5496):1486

A journal article with 2 authors

Reya T, Clevers H. 2005. Wnt signalling in stem cells and cancer. Nature. 434(7035):843–50

A journal article with 3 authors

Gaudelli NM, Long DH, Townsend CA. 2015. β-Lactam formation by a non-ribosomal peptide synthetase during antibiotic biosynthesis. Nature. 520(7547):383–87

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Samuelson JC, Chen M, Jiang F, Möller I, Wiedmann M, et al. 2000. YidC mediates membrane protein insertion in bacteria. Nature. 406(6796):637–41

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hauser G. 2008. Hygienegerechte Apparate Und Anlagen. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH

An edited book

Clarkson J, Langdon P, Robinson P, eds. 2006. Designing Accessible Technology. London: Springer. XIV, 250 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Sandberg R. 2014. Least Absolute Deviation Based Unit Root Tests in Smooth Transition Type of Models. In Advances in Non-linear Economic Modeling: Theory and Applications, ed F Schleer-van Gellecom, pp. 141–66. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

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 Annual Review of Physical Chemistry.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2014. Amazing 2D Rubens’ Tube Visualizes Sound With a Plane of Fire. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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

Government Accountability Office. 2003. Information Technology: Architecture Needed to Guide NASA’s Financial Management Modernization. GAO-04-43, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hardin J. 2010. A study of social cognitive theory: The relationship between professional learning communities and collective teacher efficacy in international school settings. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Capella University

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

Clarke J. 2016. Surf’s Up, Finally, for Women at America’s Premier Big-Wave Competition. New York Times, Oct. 29, p. D5

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem.
ISSN (print)	0066-426X
ISSN (online)	1545-1593
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry