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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Mathematical 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 W. Nowlan, “Human genetics. A rational view of insurance and genetic discrimination,” Science 297(5579), 195–196 (2002).

A journal article with 2 authors

¹ I. Koren, and G. Feingold, “Adaptive behavior of marine cellular clouds,” Sci. Rep. 3, 2507 (2013).

A journal article with 3 authors

¹ E.M. Friis, K.R. Pedersen, and P.R. Crane, “Fossil evidence of water lilies (Nymphaeales) in the Early Cretaceous,” Nature 410(6826), 357–360 (2001).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

¹ W.L. Mao, H.-K. Mao, A.F. Goncharov, V.V. Struzhkin, Q. Guo, J. Hu, J. Shu, R.J. Hemley, M. Somayazulu, and Y. Zhao, “Hydrogen clusters in clathrate hydrate,” Science 297(5590), 2247–2249 (2002).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

¹ W.-Y. Chen, NeuroInvesting (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2013).

An edited book

¹ P. Kotler, The Quintessence of Strategic Management: What You Really Need to Know to Survive in Business (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010).

A chapter in an edited book

¹ H.J. Böhm, D.H. Pahr, and T. Daxner, “Analytical and Numerical Methods for Modeling the Thermomechanical and Thermophysical Behavior of Microstructured Materials,” in Computational and Experimental Mechanics of Advanced Materials, edited by V.V. Silberschmidt, (Springer, Vienna, 2010), pp. 167–223.

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 Mathematical Physics.

Blog post

¹ T. Hale, “Scientists Have Found A Weird Googly-Eyed Squid On The Seafloor,” IFLScience, (2016).

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, Loma Prieta Earthquake: Collapse of the Bay Bridge and the Cypress Viaduct (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

¹ E.L. Norris, A Depth Psychological View of the Christian Myth: C. G. Jung, Elizabeth Boyden Howes, and the Guild for Psychological Studies, Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2008.

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 G.G. Gustines, “To Herald a Film, a Comic Strip Mirrors the Ravages of Climate Change,” New York Times, B4 (2017).

In-text citations

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

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 Mathematical Physics
Abbreviation	J. Math. Phys.
ISSN (print)	0022-2488
ISSN (online)	1089-7658
Scope	Mathematical Physics Statistical and Nonlinear Physics