How to format your references using the Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics. 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

MacLeod K. 2000. Nature. 406(6792):129

A journal article with 2 authors

Trumbore SE, Czimczik CI. 2008. Science. 321(5895):1455–56

A journal article with 3 authors

Tucker SA, Hanuscin DL, Bearnes CJ. 2008. Science. 319(5870):1621–22

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tobias JA, Bates JM, Hackett SJ, Seddon N. 2008. Science. 319(5865):901; author reply 901

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

PKF International Ltd. 2017. Wiley IFRS 2017 Interpretation and Application of IFRS Standards. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Dong G. 2007. Sequence Data Mining, Vol. 33. Boston, MA: Springer US. XVI, 150 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Ambrose CG, Hartline BE, Clanton TO, Lowe WR, McGarvey WC. 2015. In Advanced Polymers in Medicine, ed F Puoci, pp. 129–45. Cham: Springer International Publishing

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 Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics.

Blog post

Luntz S. 2017. Catastrophic Erosion Cut Britain Off From Europe Nearly Half A Million Years Ago. 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

Government Accountability Office. 1988. Close Air Support: Upgraded A-7 Aircraft’s Mission Effectiveness and Total Cost Unknown. NSIAD-88-210, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Monterosa VM. 2017. Digital Citizenship District-Wide: Examining the Organizational Evolution of an Initiative. Doctoral dissertation thesis. California State University, Long Beach

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

Hollander S. 2002. New York Times, Sep. 29, p. 89

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys.
ISSN (print)	1947-5454
ISSN (online)	1947-5462
Scope	General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics