How to format your references using the Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Physical Chemistry Chemical 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	Download the output style file
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

W. F. Ruddiman, Climate. A paleoclimatic enigma?, Science, 2010, 328, 838–839.

A journal article with 2 authors

S. H. I. Kappe and S. A. Mikolajczak, Immunology. Another shot at a malaria vaccine, Science, 2011, 334, 460–461.

A journal article with 3 authors

L. Jakobsen, J. M. Ratcliffe and A. Surlykke, Convergent acoustic field of view in echolocating bats, Nature, 2013, 493, 93–96.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

C. Sayrin, I. Dotsenko, X. Zhou, B. Peaudecerf, T. Rybarczyk, S. Gleyzes, P. Rouchon, M. Mirrahimi, H. Amini, M. Brune, J.-M. Raimond and S. Haroche, Real-time quantum feedback prepares and stabilizes photon number states, Nature, 2011, 477, 73–77.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

V. Mackevičius, Introduction to Stochastic Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

S. Weiss and N. Ferrand, Eds., Phylogeography of Southern European Refugia: Evolutionary perspectives on the origins and conservation of European biodiversity, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

M. W. Pratt, J. E. Norris, H. Lawford and M. L. Arnold, in Narrative Development in Adolescence: Creating the Storied Self, eds. K. C. McLean and M. Pasupathi, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2010, pp. 93–112.

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 Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

Blog post

J. Fang, How Leatherback Sea Turtles Keep Their Muscles Warm In Frigid Waters, (accessed 30 October 2018).

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

Government Accountability Office, Use of Consultants by NASA, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1970.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

J. Fregoso, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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

J. Williams, New York Times, 2017, BR4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Abbreviation	Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.
ISSN (print)	1463-9076
ISSN (online)	1463-9084
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry General Physics and Astronomy