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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of 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]

Riordan C G 2015 Organometallic Chemistry. Catalysis by nickel in its high oxidation state Science 347 1203–4

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Manne A S and Richels R G 2001 An alternative approach to establishing trade-offs among greenhouse gases Nature 410 675–7

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Zhang K, Zhang Y and Wang S 2013 Enhancing thermoelectric properties of organic composites through hierarchical nanostructures Sci. Rep. 3 3448

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Lawrence A, Clark L, Labuzetta J N, Sahakian B and Vyakarnum S 2008 The innovative brain Nature 456 168–9

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Tunley M, Whittaker A, Gee J and Button M 2015 The Accredited Counter Fraud Specialist Handbook (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Kotulski Z A 2010 Error Analysis with Applications in Engineering vol 169, ed W Szczepinski (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Chatain T and Haar S 2014 A Canonical Contraction for Safe Petri Nets Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency IX Lecture Notes in Computer Science ed M Koutny, S Haddad and A Yakovlev (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 83–98

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 European Journal of Physics.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E 2015 Smartphone Microscope Diagnoses Parasitic Worm Infection 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 1992 Voice of America (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]

Tuquero J M 2010 A meta-ethnographic synthesis of support services for adult learners in distance learning programs Doctoral dissertation (Minneapolis, MN: 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

[1]

Feeney K 2008 Homey Food That Speaks Of Brazil New York Times NJ22

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	European Journal of Physics
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Phys.
ISSN (print)	0143-0807
ISSN (online)	1361-6404
Scope	General Physics and Astronomy