How to format your references using the AIP Advances citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AIP Advances. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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 M. Morange, “François Jacob (1920-2013),” Nature 497(7450), 440 (2013).

A journal article with 2 authors

¹ M.I. Vaquero-Sedas, and M.A. Vega-Palas, “Determination of Arabidopsis thaliana telomere length by PCR,” Sci. Rep. 4, 5540 (2014).

A journal article with 3 authors

¹ E. Velarde, E. Ezcurra, and D.W. Anderson, “Seabird diets provide early warning of sardine fishery declines in the Gulf of California,” Sci. Rep. 3, 1332 (2013).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

¹ Y. Ji, Y. Zhang, M. Gao, Z. Yuan, Y. Xia, C. Jin, B. Tao, C. Chen, Q. Jia, and Y. Lin, “Role of microstructures on the M1-M2 phase transition in epitaxial VO2 thin films,” Sci. Rep. 4, 4854 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

¹ J.E. Martin, Physics for Radiation Protection (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2013).

An edited book

¹ E. Qi, J. Shen, and R. Dou, editors , Proceedings of 2013 4th International Asia Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management Innovation (IEMI2013) (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014).

A chapter in an edited book

¹ Y. Fernández-Jalvo, and P. Andrews, “Pits and Perforations,” in Atlas of Taphonomic Identifications: 1001+ Images of Fossil and Recent Mammal Bone Modification, edited by P. Andrews, (Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2016), pp. 101–153.

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 AIP Advances.

Blog post

¹ K. Evans, “An Asteroid Just Flew By Earth About 50% Closer Than The Moon, And We Barely Saw It Coming,” IFLScience, (2017).

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, Year 2000 Computing Crisis: An Assessment Guide--Exposure Draft (Superseded by AIMD-10.1.14) (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1997).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

¹ W. Kafi, The Effects of Patient Demographic Variables on Cesarean Section-Related Surgical Site Infection Rates, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

¹ A. Liptak, “Justices Reject 2 Districts In North Carolina, Citing Packing of Black Voters,” New York Times, A18 (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	AIP Advances
Abbreviation	AIP Adv.
ISSN (online)	2158-3226
Scope	General Physics and Astronomy