How to format your references using the Laser Physics citation style

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

Guzmán M G 2005 Global voices of science. Deciphering dengue: the Cuban experience Science 309 1495–7

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Franchi L and Núñez G 2012 Immunology. Orchestrating inflammasomes Science 337 1299–300

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ho B T, Basler M and Mekalanos J J 2013 Type 6 secretion system-mediated immunity to type 4 secretion system-mediated gene transfer Science 342 250–3

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Gambardella P, Dallmeyer A, Maiti K, Malagoli M C, Eberhardt W, Kern K and Carbone C 2002 Ferromagnetism in one-dimensional monatomic metal chains Nature 416 301–4

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Brendel R 2005 Thin-Film Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells (Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA)

An edited book

[1]

Shukla K K 2011 Lossy Image Compression: Domain Decomposition-Based Algorithms ed M V Prasad (London: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lengeler B 2006 Extended X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure Neutron and X-ray Spectroscopy ed F Hippert, E Geissler, J L Hodeau, E Lelièvre-Berna and J-R Regnard (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands) pp 131–68

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 Laser Physics.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E 2014 Scientists Develop Environmentally Friendly Diapers Made From Jellyfish 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 2010 National Transportation Safety Board: Issues Related to the 2010 Reauthorization (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]

Patrick N S 2010 Employees’ Perceptions of Employers’ Response After Workplace Injury Doctoral dissertation (Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic 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 S 2003 CHILDREN’S BOOKS New York Times 724

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	Laser Physics
Abbreviation	Laser Phys.
ISSN (print)	1054-660X
ISSN (online)	1555-6611
Scope	Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Condensed Matter Physics Instrumentation Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics