How to format your references using the The Journal of Physical Chemistry B citation style

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

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Zurek, W. H. Sub-Planck Structure in Phase Space and Its Relevance for Quantum Decoherence. Nature 2001, 412 (6848), 712–717.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Bang, A. G.; Carpenter, M. K. Development. Deconstructing Pluripotency. Science 2008, 320 (5872), 58–59.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Vaccari, N. E.; Edgecombe, G. D.; Escudero, C. Cambrian Origins and Affinities of an Enigmatic Fossil Group of Arthropods. Nature 2004, 430 (6999), 554–557.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Cui, B.; Song, C.; Li, F.; Wang, G. Y.; Mao, H. J.; Peng, J. J.; Zeng, F.; Pan, F. Tuning the Entanglement between Orbital Reconstruction and Charge Transfer at a Film Surface. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4206.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Pétrowski, A.; Ben-Hamida, S. Evolutionary Algorithms; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2017.

An edited book

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Wilczenski, F. L. A Practical Guide to Service Learning: Strategies for Positive Development in Schools; Coomey, S. M., Ed.; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

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Cui, A.; Stolfo, S. J. Symbiotes and Defensive Mutualism: Moving Target Defense. In Moving Target Defense: Creating Asymmetric Uncertainty for Cyber Threats; Jajodia, S., Ghosh, A. K., Swarup, V., Wang, C., Wang, X. S., Eds.; Advances in Information Security; Springer: New York, NY, 2011; pp 99–108.

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 Physical Chemistry B.

Blog post

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Andrew, D. How Pharmaceutical Companies Profit From Drugs For Rare Diseases. 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

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Government Accountability Office. Critical Infrastructure Protection: Progress Coordinating Government and Private Sector Efforts Varies by Sectors’ Characteristics; GAO-07-39; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Frederiksen, M. D. Engaging Physicians to Support Corporate Compliance Programs: A Grounded Theory Study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2013.

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

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Davey, M.; Robles, F. Two Lives at Crossroads in Ferguson. New York Times. August 25, 2014, p A1.

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 Physical Chemistry B
Abbreviation	J. Phys. Chem. B
ISSN (print)	1520-6106
ISSN (online)	1520-5207
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Materials Chemistry Surfaces, Coatings and Films