How to format your references using the Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle 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]

Dresser R 2012 Research ethics. Aligning regulations and ethics in human research Science 337 527–8

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Guenther M G and Young R A 2010 Transcription. Repressive transcription Science 329 150–1

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Jermiin L S, Poladian L and Charleston M A 2005 Evolution. Is the “Big Bang” in animal evolution real? Science 310 1910–1

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Hamilton G L, Kang E J, Mba M and Toste F D 2007 A powerful chiral counterion strategy for asymmetric transition metal catalysis Science 317 496–9

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hanzo L, Maunder R G, Wang J and Yang L-L 2010 Near-Capacity Variable-Length Coding (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Papadopoulos G A and Badica C 2009 Intelligent Distributed Computing III: Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC 2009, Ayia Napa, Cyprus,October 2009 vol 237 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hruska F 2015 Trends in the Sensor Development Intelligent Systems in Cybernetics and Automation Theory: Proceedings of the 4th Computer Science On-line Conference 2015 (CSOC2015), Vol 2: Intelligent Systems in Cybernetics and Automation Theory Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ed R Silhavy, R Senkerik, Z K Oplatkova, Z Prokopova and P Silhavy (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 45–55

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 G: Nuclear and Particle Physics.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S 2016 Pluto’s Icy Heart May Have Rolled The Dwarf Planet Over, Hinting At A Vast Underground Ocean 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 2005 Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites: Technical Problems, Cost Increases, and Schedule Delays Trigger Need for Difficult Trade-off Decisions (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]

Salters D D 2008 The effects of independent reading on the reading comprehension skills of sixth-grade students Doctoral dissertation (Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix)

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]

Yablonsky L 2008 NOW SHOWING | A MOVABLE FEAST New York Times M282

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 G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Abbreviation	J. Phys. G Nucl. Part. Phys.
ISSN (print)	0954-3899
ISSN (online)	1361-6471
Scope	Nuclear and High Energy Physics