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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Low Temperature 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. R. F. Service, Science 290, 2047a (2000).

A journal article with 2 authors

1. M. J. D. Rushton and A. Chroneos, Sci. Rep. 4, 6068 (2014).

A journal article with 3 authors

1. K. Hamano, Y. Abe, and H. Genda, Nature 497, 607 (2013).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. A. S. Mischenko, Q. Zhang, J. F. Scott, R. W. Whatmore, and N. D. Mathur, Science 311, 1270 (2006).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. N. V. Vakkur and Z. J. Herrera, Corporate Governance Regulation (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013).

An edited book

1. P. Rosin, A. Adamatzky, and X. Sun, editors , Cellular Automata in Image Processing and Geometry (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014).

A chapter in an edited book

1. C. Franche and D. Bogusz, in Signaling and Communication in Plant Symbiosis, edited by S. Perotto and F. Baluška (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012), pp. 73–92.

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 Journal of Low Temperature Physics.

Blog post

1. E. Andrew, IFLScience (2014).

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, Telecommunications: Application of the Antideficiency Act and Other Fiscal Controls to FCC’s E-Rate Program (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. M. Liang, Information, Communication and Wayfinding: Technology Shows Us the World, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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. M. S. Schmidt, New York Times A1 (2017).

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	Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Abbreviation	J. Low Temp. Phys.
ISSN (print)	0022-2291
ISSN (online)	1573-7357
Scope	General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics