How to format your references using the JPhys Complexity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for JPhys Complexity. 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]

Shalaev V M 2008 Physics. Transforming light Science 322 384–6

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Fisher A T and Becker K 2000 Channelized fluid flow in oceanic crust reconciles heat-flow and permeability data Nature 403 71–4

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Duckworth R A, Belloni V and Anderson S R 2015 Evolutionary ecology. Cycles of species replacement emerge from locally induced maternal effects on offspring behavior in a passerine bird Science 347 875–7

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Dahlin E, Neely A S, Larsson A, Bäckman L and Nyberg L 2008 Transfer of learning after updating training mediated by the striatum Science 320 1510–2

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Flynn M J and Luk W 2011 Computer System Design (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Schmorrow D D and Fidopiastis C M 2015 Foundations of Augmented Cognition: 9th International Conference, AC 2015, Held as Part of HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015, Proceedings vol 9183 (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Backhaus K, Hupka P and Wiegand N 2016 Order Financing and Financial Engineering Business Project Management and Marketing: Mastering Business Markets Springer Texts in Business and Economics ed M Kleinaltenkamp, W Plinke and I Geiger (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 127–58

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 JPhys Complexity.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A 2017 New “Natural Disasters” Report Reveals Billions Of People Worldwide At Risk 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 1976 Problems in the Administration of Third-Party Funds under the Vocational Rehabilitation Program in Indiana (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]

White J 2014 Support group for family caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients: 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]

Wagner J 2017 Battered Mets No Match For the Solid Nationals New York Times SP2

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	JPhys Complexity
ISSN (online)	2632-072X
Scope