How to format your references using the Quantum Beam Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Quantum Beam Science. 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

Wright, J. Epigenetics: Reversible Tags. Nature 2013, 498, S10-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yack, J.E.; Fullard, J.H. Ultrasonic Hearing in Nocturnal Butterflies. Nature 2000, 403, 265–266.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tsori, Y.; Tournilhac, F.; Leibler, L. Demixing in Simple Fluids Induced by Electric Field Gradients. Nature 2004, 430, 544–547.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Efthimiopoulos, I.; Zhang, J.; Kucway, M.; Park, C.; Ewing, R.C.; Wang, Y. Sb₂Se₃ under Pressure. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2665.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Decreusefond, L.; Moyal, P. Stochastic Modeling and Analysis of Telecom Networks; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2012; ISBN 9781118562628.

An edited book

Information Assurance and Security Education and Training: 8th IFIP WG 11.8 World Conference on Information Security Education, WISE 8, Auckland, New Zealand, July 8-10, 2013, Proceedings, WISE 7, Lucerne Switzerland, June 9-10, 2011, and WISE 6, Bento Gonçalves, RS, Brazil, July 27-31, 2009, Revised Selected Papers; Dodge, R.C., Futcher, L., Eds.; IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013; Vol. 406; ISBN 9783642393761.

A chapter in an edited book

Gross, E.K.U.; Maitra, N.T. Introduction to TDDFT. In Fundamentals of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory; Marques, M.A.L., Maitra, N.T., Nogueira, F.M.S., Gross, E.K.U., Rubio, A., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Physics; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; pp. 53–99 ISBN 9783642235177.

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 Quantum Beam Science.

Blog post

Luntz, S. Second Asteroid Impact May Have Followed Dinosaur Killer 65 Million Years Ago Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/second-asteroid-impact-may-have-followed-dinosaur-killer-65-million-years-ago/ (accessed on 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 ADP Management: Status of the Army’s Logistics and Technical Information Initiatives; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1988;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Moro, J.M. School Improvement Grants at Work: A Study of Urban, Public New England Schools. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University: Malibu, CA, 2017.

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

Paulson, M. ‘King Kong’ Gets Closer to Broadway. New York Times 2017, 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	Quantum Beam Science
Abbreviation	Quantum Beam Sci.
ISSN (online)	2412-382X
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