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

Horby P. 2013. H7N9 is a virus worth worrying about. Nature. 496(7446):399

A journal article with 2 authors

Nicholls RJ, Cazenave A. 2010. Sea-level rise and its impact on coastal zones. Science. 328(5985):1517–20

A journal article with 3 authors

Sasaki T, Yamamoto Y, Koashi M. 2014. Practical quantum key distribution protocol without monitoring signal disturbance. Nature. 509(7501):475–78

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cash W, Shipley A, Osterman S, Joy M. 2000. Laboratory detection of X-ray fringes with a grazing-incidence interferometer. Nature. 407(6801):160–62

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kroupa VF. 2005. Phase Lock Loops and Frequency Synthesis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

DeMaris A. 2013. Converting Data into Evidence: A Statistics Primer for the Medical Practitioner. New York, NY: Springer. XV, 221 p. 48 illus., 24 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Vafaeinezhad AR, Alesheikh AA, Hamrah M, Nourjou R, Shad R. 2009. Using GIS to Develop an Efficient Spatio-temporal Task Allocation Algorithm to Human Groups in an Entirely Dynamic Environment Case Study: Earthquake Rescue Teams. In Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2009: International Conference, Seoul, Korea, June 29-July 2, 2009, Proceedings, Part I, ed O Gervasi, D Taniar, B Murgante, A Laganà, Y Mun, ML Gavrilova, pp. 66–78. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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

Andrew E. 2015. So You Think You Have IBS, Coeliac Disease Or Crohn’s? Here’s What It Might Mean For You. 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. 2011. Postsecondary Education: Student Outcomes Vary at For-Profit, Nonprofit, and Public Schools. GAO-12-143, 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

Usborne EL. 2012. Sediment and phosphorus dynamics behind weirs in agricultural drainage ditches. 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

Zraick K, Gladstone R. 2016. Prisoner Swap With Iran Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Iran Gets Anyone. New York Times, Jan. 20, p. A8

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