How to format your references using the Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids. 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

[1]

R.N. Clayton, Planetary science: Meteorites and their parent asteroids, Science 313 (2006) 1743–1744.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.L. Heilbron, W.F. Bynum, 1902 and all that, Nature 415 (2002) 15–18.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y. Xiao, Y. Wang, D.J. Felleman, A spatially organized representation of colour in macaque cortical area V2, Nature 421 (2003) 535–539.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S.C. Trewick, T.F. Henshaw, R.P. Hausinger, T. Lindahl, B. Sedgwick, Oxidative demethylation by Escherichia coli AlkB directly reverts DNA base damage, Nature 419 (2002) 174–178.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C.J. Taylor, P.C. Young, A. Chotai, True Digital Control, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

S. Scheiner, ed., Noncovalent Forces, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Gjedde, W.R. Bauer, D.F. Wong, Neuroreceptor Mapping In Vivo: Monoamines, in: W.R. Bauer, D.F. Wong (Eds.), Neurokinetics: The Dynamics of Neurobiology in Vivo, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2011: pp. 131–152.

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 Physics and Chemistry of Solids.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, Turning Atmospheric CO2 Into Carbon Nanofibers Could Reduce Global Warming, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/method-removing-carbon-dioxide-air-could-return-us-pre-industrial-revolution-co2-levels/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, DOD Business Systems Modernization: Improvements to Enterprise Architecture Development and Implementation Efforts Needed, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. Anderson, Chamber Music in Early Piano Study: A Guide to Repertoire, Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2004.

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]

B. Sisario, Lorde Makes Her Way To the Top of Chart, New York Times (2017) C3.

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 Physics and Chemistry of Solids
Abbreviation	J. Phys. Chem. Solids
ISSN (print)	0022-3697
Scope	General Chemistry General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics