How to format your references using the Chemical Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chemical 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	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

[1]

M. Tegmark, Cosmology. The dark side of distortion, Nature 405 (2000) 133–134.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Karbaschi, M.S. Cooke, Novel method for the high-throughput processing of slides for the comet assay, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7200.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.N. Melchor, S. De Valais, J.F. Genise, Bird-like fossil footprints from the Late Triassic, Nature 417 (2002) 936–938.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Penjor, T. Mimura, R. Matsumoto, M. Yamamoto, Y. Nagano, Characterization of limes (Citrus aurantifolia) grown in Bhutan and Indonesia using high-throughput sequencing, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4853.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B. Eylert, The Mobile Multimedia Business, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

J. Paris, J. Phillips, eds., Making the DSM-5: Concepts and Controversies, Springer, New York, NY, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Moot, C. Retoré, The Non-associative Lambek Calculus, in: C. Retoré (Ed.), The Logic of Categorial Grammars: A Deductive Account of Natural Language Syntax and Semantics, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 101–147.

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 Chemical Physics.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, New Fossil Evidence Suggests There Have Been 6 Mass Extinctions, Not 5, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-fossil-evidence-suggests-there-were-6-mass-extinctions-not-5/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Aviation Security: Actions Needed to Address Challenges and Potential Vulnerabilities Related to Securing Inbound Air Cargo, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L. Kantar, Clinical judgment among new nursing graduates: A multiple-case study, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2010.

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

[1]

J. Anderson, A First-Timer, but No Rookie, New York Times (2017) C4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Chemical Physics
Abbreviation	Chem. Phys.
ISSN (print)	0301-0104
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry General Physics and Astronomy