How to format your references using the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. 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]

Parkins W E 2006 Energy. Fusion power: will it ever come? Science 311 1380

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Przyborski J and Lanzer M 2004 Parasitology. The malarial secretome Science 306 1897–8

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Malinowski J T, Sharpe R J and Johnson J S 2013 Enantioselective synthesis of pactamycin, a complex antitumor antibiotic Science 340 180–2

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Boillée S, Yamanaka K, Lobsiger C S, Copeland N G, Jenkins N A, Kassiotis G, Kollias G and Cleveland D W 2006 Onset and progression in inherited ALS determined by motor neurons and microglia Science 312 1389–92

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Allman K and Nogales X E D 2015 Impact Investment (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc)

An edited book

[1]

Mishra S K 2008 Invexity and Optimization vol 88, ed G Giorgi (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ahsan M 2012 Women and Human Development in the Muslim World Women in Islam: Reflections on Historical and Contemporary Research ed T Lovat (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands) pp 43–60

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: Condensed Matter.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K 2017 How Man’s Best Friend Is Helping Cancer Treatment 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 1972 Government Computer Acquisition Practices (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]

Yobby J 2017 Application of Genetic Algorithm Optimization of Thermodynamic Fluids Designs Doctoral dissertation (Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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]

Hollander S 2003 First Prize Is a Chance to Climb Everest New York Times D10

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: Condensed Matter
Abbreviation	J. Phys. Condens. Matter
ISSN (print)	0953-8984
ISSN (online)	1361-648X
Scope	General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics