How to format your references using the JPhys Materials citation style

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

Maxted P F L 2006 Astronomy. A ghostly star revealed in silhouette Science 314 1550–1

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Aldecoa R and Marín I 2013 Surprise maximization reveals the community structure of complex networks Sci. Rep. 3 1060

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Esvelt K M, Carlson J C and Liu D R 2011 A system for the continuous directed evolution of biomolecules Nature 472 499–503

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Pawlowski W P, Golubovskaya I N, Timofejeva L, Meeley R B, Sheridan W F and Cande W Z 2004 Coordination of meiotic recombination, pairing, and synapsis by PHS1 Science 303 89–92

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Davis T B 2011 Audel Industrial Multi-Craft Mini-Ref (Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Stathopoulos T and Baniotopoulos C C 2007 Wind Effects on Buildings and Design of Wind-Sensitive Structures vol 493 (Vienna: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

He B 2005 Three-Dimensional Electrocardiographic Tomographic Imaging Modeling and Imaging of Bioelectrical Activity: Principles and Applications Bioelectric Engineering ed B He (Boston, MA: Springer US) pp 161–82

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 Materials.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E 2015 How Do Astronauts Sleep In Space? 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 2004 Homeland Security: Efforts Under Way to Develop Enterprise Architecture, but Much Work Remains (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]

Karch K 2014 An investigation of perceptions about smart mobile phone usage as an instructional tool in a high school classroom Doctoral dissertation (Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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]

GEORGE GENE GUSTINES; Compiled by RACHEL LEE HARRIS 2010 Pilgrim, The Final Volume New York Times C2

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 Materials
ISSN (online)	2515-7639
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