How to format your references using the Journal of Physics: Conference Series citation style

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

Jackson A 2000 Critical time for fluid dynamos Nature 405 1003–4

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Pilkey O H and Cooper J A G 2004 Climate. Society and sea level rise Science 303 1781–2

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Smolyaninov I I, Hung Y-J and Davis C C 2007 Magnifying superlens in the visible frequency range Science 315 1699–701

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Lin L, Spoor M S, Gerth A J, Brody S L and Peng S L 2004 Modulation of Th1 activation and inflammation by the NF-kappaB repressor Foxj1 Science 303 1017–20

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Galwey N W 2014 Introduction to Mixed Modelling (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Christensen P O 2005 Economics of Accounting: Volume II — Performance Evaluation vol 2, ed G A Feltham (Boston, MA: Springer US)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Buendía-García F and Benlloch-Dualde J V 2012 Concept Maps and Patterns for Designing Learning Scenarios Based on Digital-Ink Technologies International Workshop on Evidence-Based Technology Enhanced Learning Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing ed P Vittorini, R Gennari, I Marenzi, F de la Prieta and J M C Rodríguez (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 27–35

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: Conference Series.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E 2014 Watch The European Space Agency Land A Spacecraft On A Comet 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 1986 Deactivating Research Vessels: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Use of Private Ships (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]

Richard K 2017 College Programs in Women’s Prisons: Faculty Perceptions of Teaching Higher Education Behind Bars Doctoral dissertation (Washington, DC: George Washington 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]

Kelly M A 2003 BUSINESS TRAVEL: ON THE GROUND -- Paris; A City of Good Food, Fashion and Corporate Drama New York Times C8

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: Conference Series
Abbreviation	J. Phys. Conf. Ser.
ISSN (print)	1742-6588
ISSN (online)	1742-6596
Scope	General Physics and Astronomy