How to format your references using the Entropy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Entropy. 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

Smith, C. A Question of Form. Nature 2003, 422, 341.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lum, L.; Clevers, H. Cell Biology. The Unusual Case of Porcupine. Science 2012, 337, 922–923.

A journal article with 3 authors

Adachi, M.M.; Anantram, M.P.; Karim, K.S. Core-Shell Silicon Nanowire Solar Cells. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 1546.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Takeuchi, K.; Mohammad, S.; Ozaki, T.; Morioka, E.; Kawaguchi, K.; Kim, J.; Jeong, B.; Hong, J.H.; Lee, K.J.; Ikeda, M. Serotonin-2C Receptor Involved Serotonin-Induced Ca²⁺ Mobilisations in Neuronal Progenitors and Neurons in Rat Suprachiasmatic Nucleus. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4106.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Permyakov, E.A.; Kretsinger, R.H. Calcium Binding Proteins; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2010; ISBN 9780470872390.

An edited book

Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics: 7th IAPR International Conference, PRIB 2012, Tokyo, Japan, November 8-10, 2012. Proceedings; Shibuya, T., Kashima, H., Sese, J., Ahmad, S., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; Vol. 7632; ISBN 9783642341229.

A chapter in an edited book

Song, L.; Zhang, M.; Sun, Z.; Liang, J.; He, R. Two-Step Greedy Subspace Clustering. In Advances in Multimedia Information Processing -- PCM 2015: 16th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Gwangju, South Korea, September 16-18, 2015, Proceedings, Part I; Ho, Y.-S., Sang, J., Ro, Y.M., Kim, J., Wu, F., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; pp. 45–54 ISBN 9783319240749.

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 Entropy.

Blog post

Luntz, S. Most Of Our Galaxy’s Antimatter Comes From Supernovae Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/most-of-our-galaxys-antimatter-comes-from-supernova/ (accessed on 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office Motor Carrier Safety: Improvements to Drug Testing Programs Could Better Identify Illegal Drug Users and Keep Them off the Road; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2008;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Perez, R.W. Stepping Stone or Stumbling Block? The Impact of Prior Military Service on Hiring Managers’ Perceptions of Warmth, Competence, and Hirability. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University: Edwardsville, IL, 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

Witz, B. A Button-Down Game Gets a Needed Pinch of Pizazz. New York Times 2017, B18.

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	Entropy
Abbreviation	Entropy (Basel)
ISSN (online)	1099-4300
Scope	General Physics and Astronomy