How to format your references using the The Journal of Chemical Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of 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

¹ J.K. Balch, “Atmospheric science: drought and fire change sink to source,” Nature 506(7486), 41–42 (2014).

A journal article with 2 authors

¹ S. Kishore, and S. Stamm, “The snoRNA HBII-52 regulates alternative splicing of the serotonin receptor 2C,” Science 311(5758), 230–232 (2006).

A journal article with 3 authors

¹ H. Deng, A.A. Gerencser, and H. Jasper, “Signal integration by Ca(2+) regulates intestinal stem-cell activity,” Nature 528(7581), 212–217 (2015).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

¹ K. Okamura, W.-J. Chung, J.G. Ruby, H. Guo, D.P. Bartel, and E.C. Lai, “The Drosophila hairpin RNA pathway generates endogenous short interfering RNAs,” Nature 453(7196), 803–806 (2008).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

¹ M.J. Sailor, Porous Silicon in Practice (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2011).

An edited book

¹ J. Tian, J. Jing, and M. Srivatsa, editors , International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks: 10th International ICST Conference, SecureComm 2014, Beijing, China, September 24-26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Part II (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015).

A chapter in an edited book

¹ E.A. Rosei, M. Salvetti, and M.L. Muiesan, “Ultrasound: Carotid Intima-Media Thickness and Plaque (2D–3D),” in Assessment of Preclinical Organ Damage in Hypertension, edited by E. Agabiti Rosei and G. Mancia, (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015), pp. 41–50.

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 The Journal of Chemical Physics.

Blog post

¹ J. Fang, “Dolphins and Belugas Squeal With Delight,” IFLScience, (2014).

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, IT Dashboard: Accuracy Has Improved, and Additional Efforts Are Under Way to Better Inform Decision Making (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2011).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

¹ P.E. Duran, Factors and Prevention Strategies to Fight Childhood Obesity, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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 M. Wilson, “From Fortunetelling to a Forgery Accusation, the Tale of a Psychic’s Arrest,” New York Times, A17 (2017).

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	The Journal of Chemical Physics
Abbreviation	J. Chem. Phys.
ISSN (print)	0021-9606
ISSN (online)	1089-7690
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry General Physics and Astronomy