How to format your references using the Chemical Physics Letters: X citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chemical Physics Letters: X. 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]

R. Jahn, Neuroscience. A neuronal receptor for botulinum toxin, Science 312 (2006) 540–541.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Gruenheid, B.B. Finlay, Microbial pathogenesis and cytoskeletal function, Nature 422 (2003) 775–781.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.D. Clayton, C.P. Kyriacou, S.M. Reppert, Keeping time with the human genome, Nature 409 (2001) 829–831.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

E. Burdet, R. Osu, D.W. Franklin, T.E. Milner, M. Kawato, The central nervous system stabilizes unstable dynamics by learning optimal impedance, Nature 414 (2001) 446–449.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T.R. Howe, Marriages & Families in the 21st Century, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

G.Z. Voyiadjis, Elasto-Plastic and Damage Analysis of Plates and Shells, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B. Cugusi, Future Perspectives for the European Neighbourhood Policy, in: F. Celata, R. Coletti (Eds.), Neighbourhood Policy and the Construction of the European External Borders, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 139–154.

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 Letters: X.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Flies Evade Swatting With Fighter Jet-Like Maneuvering, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/flies-evade-swatting-fighter-jet-maneuvering/ (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, Next Generation Air Transportation System: Progress and Challenges in Planning and Implementing the Transformation of the National Airspace System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.L. Eastwood, The effects of an interdisciplinary undergraduate human biology program on socioscientific reasoning, content learning, and understanding of inquiry, Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 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]

A. Currie, G. Hay, Big Temptations For Wells Fargo, New York Times (2011) B2.

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 Letters: X
ISSN (print)	2590-1419
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