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

Hanage WP. 2014. Nature. 512(7514):247–48

A journal article with 2 authors

Aqvist J, Luzhkov V. 2000. Nature. 404(6780):881–84

A journal article with 3 authors

Coussens LM, Zitvogel L, Palucka AK. 2013. Science. 339(6117):286–91

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Calford MB, Chino YM, Das A, Eysel UT, Gilbert CD, et al. 2005. Nature. 438(7065):E3; discussion E3-4

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bush J, Harris DM, Parker RJ. 2016. Cognitive Self Change. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Mak P-I. 2012. High-/Mixed-Voltage Analog and RF Circuit Techniques for Nanoscale CMOS. New York, NY: Springer. XVIII, 146 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Orringer MB. 2015. In Gastrointestinal Surgery: Management of Complex Perioperative Complications, ed TM Pawlik, SK Maithel, NB Merchant, pp. 35–51. New York, NY: Springer

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

Hale T. 2016. People Are Freaking Out Over This Dead “Mermaid” On A UK Beach. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 2000. Federal Communications Commission: Competitive Bidding Procedures. OGC-00-69, 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

Bartaula B. 2017. Stand Level Growth and Survival Equations for Cutover Sites Loblolly Pine Plantations in the Mid-Gulf Region of Southern United States. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Mississippi State University

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

Yablonsky L. 2006. New York Times, Feb. 26, p. 234

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