How to format your references using the Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chinese Journal of 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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]

Ron D 2006 Cell biology. Stressed cells cope with protein overload Science 313 52–3

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Becker N B and Everaers R 2009 Comment on “Remeasuring the double helix” Science 325 538; author reply 538

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Czaplicka A, Holyst J A and Sloot P M A 2013 Noise enhances information transfer in hierarchical networks Sci. Rep. 3 1223

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Hoffmann A, Levchenko A, Scott M L and Baltimore D 2002 The IkappaB-NF-kappaB signaling module: temporal control and selective gene activation Science 298 1241–5

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Henry-Labordère A 2009 Virtual Roaming Systems for GSM, GPRS and UMTS (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Gourtsoyiannis N C 2011 Clinical MRI of the Abdomen: Why,How,When (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sagarin R and Pauchard A 2012 Using Technology to Expand Our Observational Senses Observation and Ecology: Broadening the Scope of Science to Understand a Complex World ed A Pauchard (Washington, DC: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics) pp 63–73

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 Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T 2016 Watch This Desert Moss “Drink” Mist And Fog From The Air IFLScience

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 2007 Hospital Quality Data: HHS Should Specify Steps and Time Frame for Using Information Technology to Collect and Submit Data (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Lee D 2010 Subjective strain, anger, and delinquency: Evidence from South Korea Doctoral dissertation (College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park)

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]

Gustines G G 2015 Take That, Dog Abusers New York Times F11

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	Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics
ISSN (print)	1674-0068
Scope