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]

Reynolds S E 2013 Ecology. Immunity and invasive success Science 340 816–7

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Iimura T and Pourquié O 2006 Collinear activation of Hoxb genes during gastrulation is linked to mesoderm cell ingression Nature 442 568–71

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lin G, Xu N and Xi R 2008 Paracrine Wingless signalling controls self-renewal of Drosophila intestinal stem cells Nature 455 1119–23

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Dodson J, Dodson E, Banati R, Li X, Atahan P, Hu S, Middleton R J, Zhou X and Nan S 2014 Oldest directly dated remains of sheep in China Sci. Rep. 4 7170

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Peter M and Scheer C 2015 Holzbau-Taschenbuch (Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA)

An edited book

[1]

Wimmer M A, Scholl J and Grönlund Å 2007 Electronic Government: 6th International Conference, EGOV 2007, Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007. Proceedings vol 4656 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Taylor E M, Rodríguez O. C, Velásquez J D, Ghosh G and Banerjee S 2013 Web Opinion Mining and Sentimental Analysis Advanced Techniques in Web Intelligence-2: Web User Browsing Behaviour and Preference Analysis Studies in Computational Intelligence ed J D Velásquez, V Palade and L C Jain (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 105–26

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]

Fang J 2016 Animals With Glowing Courtship Displays Are More Likely To Diversify 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 1994 State Department: Problems in Compiling List of Countries Restricting Longshore Activities (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]

Rodriguez F 2010 Grant proposal: Providing effective screening, training, and supervision for an at-risk youth mentoring program Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: 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

[1]

Walsh M W 2016 Bipartisan Bill Poses Federal Control Over Puerto Rico’s Fiscal Affairs New York Times B5

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