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 E.E. Schadt, “Molecular networks as sensors and drivers of common human diseases,” Nature 461(7261), 218–223 (2009).

A journal article with 2 authors

¹ A. Bhattachan, and P. D’Odorico, “Can land use intensification in the Mallee, Australia increase the supply of soluble iron to the Southern Ocean?,” Sci. Rep. 4, 6009 (2014).

A journal article with 3 authors

¹ W. Zhang, J.A. Dunkle, and J.H.D. Cate, “Structures of the ribosome in intermediate states of ratcheting,” Science 325(5943), 1014–1017 (2009).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

¹ X.Y. Chin, J. Yin, Z. Wang, M. Caironi, and C. Soci, “Mapping polarons in polymer FETs by charge modulation microscopy in the mid-infrared,” Sci. Rep. 4, 3626 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

¹ O. Hersent, IP Telephony (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2010).

An edited book

¹ S.T.R. Zaidi, and J.A. Roberts, editors , Drug Dosing in Obesity: Volume I: Antimicrobials (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016).

A chapter in an edited book

¹ K. Wieloch, A. Filipowska, and M. Kaczmarek, “Autocompletion for Business Process Modelling,” in Business Information Systems Workshops: BIS 2011 International Workshops and BPSC International Conference, Poznań, Poland, June 15-17, 2011. Revised Papers, edited by W. Abramowicz, L. Maciaszek, and K. Węcel, (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011), pp. 30–40.

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 J. Fang, “Parasitic wasps must lay their eggs in the right fly, or else,” 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, Commercial Practices: Opportunities Exist to Enhance DOD’s Sales of Surplus Aircraft Parts (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1994).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

¹ F.-Y. Shen, A Pedagogical and Analytic Comparison of Auguste Franchomme’s Twelve Caprices, Op. 7 and Alfredo Piatti’s Twelve Caprices, Op. 25, Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2009.

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. Pilon, “Coaching The Kayakers On 2 Wheels,” New York Times, B17 (2012).

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