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.C. Holmes, “Virology. 1918 and all that,” Science 303(5665), 1787–1788 (2004).

A journal article with 2 authors

¹ K.E. Yamaguchi, and H. Ohmoto, “Comment on ‘Iron isotope constraints on the Archean and Paleoproterozoic ocean redox state,’” Science 311(5758), 177; author reply 177 (2006).

A journal article with 3 authors

¹ P. Pavlov, J.I. Svendsen, and S. Indrelid, “Human presence in the European Arctic nearly 40,000 years ago,” Nature 413(6851), 64–67 (2001).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

¹ J.P. Freedman, J.H. Leach, E.A. Preble, Z. Sitar, R.F. Davis, and J.A. Malen, “Universal phonon mean free path spectra in crystalline semiconductors at high temperature,” Sci. Rep. 3, 2963 (2013).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

¹ K.B. Carter, Actionable Intelligence (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014).

An edited book

¹ R.J. Solaro, and J.C. Tardiff, editors , Biophysics of the Failing Heart: Physics and Biology of Heart Muscle (Springer, New York, NY, 2013).

A chapter in an edited book

¹ E. Hankela, “‘It’s Only the Glass Door, Which Breaks Every Day.’ Layered Politics of (Dis)Order at the Central Methodist Mission,” in Routes and Rites to the City: Mobility, Diversity and Religious Space in Johannesburg, edited by M. Wilhelm-Solomon, L. Núñez, P. Kankonde Bukasa, and B. Malcomess, (Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016), pp. 91–115.

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 T. Hale, “Worker Wasps Will Look For Another Nest Unless Their Boss Improves Working Conditions,” 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, General Aviation: Observations Related to Liability Insurance Requirements and Coverage for Aircraft Owners (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

¹ M. Sanchez, For Imagination and Love – The Permanence of the Mexican Father Who Fathers at a Distance, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2012.

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 S. Kishkovsky, “The Bolshoi Tries Partnering With a Friend From America,” New York Times, AR10 (2007).

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