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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 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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Vedral, V. Quantifying Entanglement in Macroscopic Systems. Nature 2008, 453 (7198), 1004–1007.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Milligan, A. J.; Morel, F. M. M. A Proton Buffering Role for Silica in Diatoms. Science 2002, 297 (5588), 1848–1850.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Pfingsten, J. S.; Costantino, D. A.; Kieft, J. S. Structural Basis for Ribosome Recruitment and Manipulation by a Viral IRES RNA. Science 2006, 314 (5804), 1450–1454.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Shima, S.; Pilak, O.; Vogt, S.; Schick, M.; Stagni, M. S.; Meyer-Klaucke, W.; Warkentin, E.; Thauer, R. K.; Ermler, U. The Crystal Structure of [Fe]-Hydrogenase Reveals the Geometry of the Active Site. Science 2008, 321 (5888), 572–575.

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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Rangarao, K. V.; Mallik, R. K. Digital Signal Processing; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

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Intelligent Robotics and Applications: 5th International Conference, ICIRA 2012, Montreal, Canada, October 3-5, 2012, Proceedings, Part II; Su, C.-Y., Rakheja, S., Liu, H., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; Vol. 7507.

A chapter in an edited book

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Giorello, G.; Sinigaglia, C. Space and Movement. On Husserl’s Geometry of the Visual Field. In Rediscovering Phenomenology: Phenomenological Essays on Mathematical Beings, Physical Reality, Perception and Consciousness; Boi, L., Kerszberg, P., Patras, F., Eds.; Phaenomenologica; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2007; pp 103–123.

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 Letters.

Blog post

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Andrew, E. A Lab In South Korea Will Clone Your Dog For $100,000. 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. Information Technology: Implementation of Reform Legislation Needed to Improve Acquisitions and Operations; GAO-16-204T; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2015.

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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Sparks, G. A. Charismatic Leadership: An Exploratory Investigation of the Techniques of Influence. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2008.

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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Hodgman, J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times. September 29, 2017, p MM18.

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 Letters
Abbreviation	J. Phys. Chem. Lett.
ISSN (online)	1948-7185
Scope	General Materials Science