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

Doudna J. 2015. Perspective: Embryo editing needs scrutiny. Nature. 528(7580):S6

A journal article with 2 authors

Santos ME, Salzburger W. 2012. Evolution. How cichlids diversify. Science. 338(6107):619–21

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu M, Pastor-Pareja JC, Xu T. 2010. Interaction between Ras(V12) and scribbled clones induces tumour growth and invasion. Nature. 463(7280):545–48

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Beaumont C, Jamieson RA, Nguyen MH, Lee B. 2001. Himalayan tectonics explained by extrusion of a low-viscosity crustal channel coupled to focused surface denudation. Nature. 414(6865):738–42

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johnson JL. 1997. Probability and Statistics for Computer Science. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Karasavvoglou A, Aranđelović Z, Marinković S, Polychronidou P, eds. 2016. The First Decade of Living with the Global Crisis: Economic and Social Developments in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Cham: Springer International Publishing. XII, 192 p. 25 illus., 19 illus. in color p. 1st ed. 2016 ed.

A chapter in an edited book

Guerraoui R, Ruppert E. 2014. Linearizability Is Not Always a Safety Property. In Networked Systems: Second International Conference, NETYS 2014, Marrakech, Morocco, May 15-17, 2014. Revised Selected Papers, ed G Noubir, M Raynal, pp. 57–69. 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 Physical Chemistry.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. Jumbled Arrangement Of Atoms Allows Bulk Metallic Glasses To Flow Like Honey. 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. 2010. Commercial Aviation: Consumers Could Benefit from Better Information about Airline-Imposed Fees and Refundability of Government-Imposed Taxes and Fees. GAO-10-785, 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

Lim RH-J. 2017. A stylistic analysis of and performance suggestions for Robert Muczynski’s Second Piano Sonata, Opus 22. 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

Stewart JB. 2017. A Year of New Heights For the Dow, Led by Boeing. New York Times, Aug. 10, p. B1

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