How to format your references using the Annual Review of Physical Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Physical Chemistry. 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	Download the output style file
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

Moerchen M. 2012. Astronomy: warm dust makes a fast getaway. Nature. 487(7405):45–46

A journal article with 2 authors

Hol FJH, Dekker C. 2014. Zooming in to see the bigger picture: microfluidic and nanofabrication tools to study bacteria. Science. 346(6208):1251821

A journal article with 3 authors

Beal EJ, House CH, Orphan VJ. 2009. Manganese- and iron-dependent marine methane oxidation. Science. 325(5937):184–87

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Berners-Lee T, Hall W, Hendler J, Shadbolt N, Weitzner DJ. 2006. Computer science. Creating a science of the Web. Science. 313(5788):769–71

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Welker RW, Nagarajan R, Newberg CE. 2005. Contamination and ESD Control in High-Technology Manufacturing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Yang HS, Malaka R, Hoshino J, Han JH, eds. 2010. Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2010: 9th International Conference, ICEC 2010, Seoul, Korea, September 8-11, 2010. Proceedings, Vol. 6243. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. XVII, 521 p. 303 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Connor MJ, Oommen A. 2015. Clinical Pearls: Non-dialytic Management of Kidney Complications in the Postoperative Period. In Perioperative Kidney Injury: Principles of Risk Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment, ed CV Thakar, CR Parikh, pp. 53–65. 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 Physical Chemistry.

Blog post

Carpineti A. 2016. Exoplanets Around Small-Stars Are Likely To Be Earth-Sized Water Worlds. 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. 2013. Army Networks: Size and Scope of Modernization Investment Merit Increased Oversight. GAO-13-179, 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

Contreras AG. 2009. A reproductive health program for the Latino adolescent community: A grant proposal. 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

Kishkovsky S. 2011. Russia: Abortion Restrictions Signed. New York Times, July 16, p. A5

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 Physical Chemistry
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem.
ISSN (print)	0066-426X
ISSN (online)	1545-1593
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry