How to format your references using the Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. 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]

Neu U 2008 Is recent major hurricane activity normal? Nature 451 E5; discussion E6

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Murray N and Holman M 2001 The role of chaotic resonances in the Solar System Nature 410 773–9

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

AbdAlla S, Lother H and Quitterer U 2000 AT1-receptor heterodimers show enhanced G-protein activation and altered receptor sequestration Nature 407 94–8

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Wang Q, Zhang H, Ma G, Liao Y, Tang X and Zhong Z 2014 Spectrum gaps of spin waves generated by interference in a uniform nanostripe waveguide Sci. Rep. 4 5917

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Brook M V 2011 Ultrasonic Inspection Technology Development and Search Unit Design (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Lovat T 2012 Women in Islam: Reflections on Historical and Contemporary Research (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Li X-M 2011 Intertwinned Diffusions by Examples Stochastic Analysis 2010 ed D Crisan (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 51–71

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 Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J 2014 Cockatoos Learn How To Make and Use Tools From Each Other 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

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Government Accountability Office 2011 Joint Strike Fighter: Restructuring Places Program on Firmer Footing, but Progress Is Still Lagging (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]

Rodriguez J M 2011 A recruitment campaign for Latino non-kin foster parents: A grant proposal Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach)

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]

Vecsey G 2011 Griffin’s Garden: Jeers and Big-Game Feel Greet High-Profile Visitor New York Times B15

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 Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
Abbreviation	J. Stat. Mech.
ISSN (online)	1742-5468
Scope	Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty Statistics and Probability Statistical and Nonlinear Physics