How to format your references using the Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics. 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]

Loder N 2000 Case of the stolen Enigma machine takes cryptic turn Nature 407 278

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kubatko L S and Pearl D K 2011 Evolution. Seeing the trees in your terrace Science 333 411–2

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bliss T V P, Collingridge G L and Laroche S 2006 Neuroscience. ZAP and ZIP, a story to forget Science 313 1058–9

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Bousquet E, Dawber M, Stucki N, Lichtensteiger C, Hermet P, Gariglio S, Triscone J-M and Ghosez P 2008 Improper ferroelectricity in perovskite oxide artificial superlattices Nature 452 732–6

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ahmad K 2005 Sourcebook of ATM and IP Internetworking (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Pickard J D, Akalan N, Benes V, Rocco C D, Dolenc V V, Antunes J L, Rappaport Z H, Schramm J and Sindou M 2011 Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery vol 37 (Vienna: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hammerman M R 2011 Frontiers in Organ Transplantation Pathology of Solid Organ Transplantation ed H Liapis and H L Wang (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 57–74

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 Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan J 2017 First Commercial Airlock To Be Installed On The ISS In 2019 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office 1998 Transportation Issue Area: Active Assignments (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]

Emale J M 2010 An examination of how conglomerates impact small-medium enterprises in their relationship Doctoral dissertation (Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix)

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]

Oestreich J R 2017 Lions in Winter Who Can Still Roar New York Times C5

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	Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics
ISSN (print)	1674-0068
Scope