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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chinese Journal of 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]

I. Wilmut, Retrospective. Keith Campbell (1954-2012), Science 338 (2012) 1553.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Bremner, J. Sage, Cancer: The origin of human retinoblastoma, Nature 514 (2014) 312–313.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Jing, C.A. Bishop, L.-A. Wu, Nonperturbative dynamical decoupling with random control, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6229.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C.D. Dahl, M.J. Rasch, M. Tomonaga, I. Adachi, The face inversion effect in non-human primates revisited - an investigation in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2504.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. Schober, Transparent Shells, Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

F. Zavoral, J. Yaghob, P. Pichappan, E. El-Qawasmeh, eds., Networked Digital Technologies: Second International Conference, NDT 2010, Prague, Czech Republic, July 7-9, 2010. Proceedings, Part I, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

I. Schiller, R. Koch, Datastructures for Capturing Dynamic Scenes with a Time-of-Flight Camera, in: A. Kolb, R. Koch (Eds.), Dynamic 3D Imaging: DAGM 2009 Workshop, Dyn3D 2009, Jena, Germany, September 9, 2009. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 42–57.

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 Physics.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, NASA Cuts Ties with Russia, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-cuts-ties-russia/ (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, Electronic Government: Potential Exists for Enhancing Collaboration on Four Initiatives, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Luna, A Case Study of the Influence of Multipurpose Spaces on Campus Life at an Institution of Art and Design, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

W. Hu, N. Remnick, Grieving Family Worries, Wondering How a Bronx Man Got Legionnaires’, New York Times (2015) A22.

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 Physics
Abbreviation	Chin. J. Phys.
ISSN (print)	0577-9073
Scope	General Physics and Astronomy