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]

H. Gavaghan, Tips for sequence centre job-seekers, Nature 409 (2001) 964.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.G. Morris, M. Barthelemy, Interdependent networks: the fragility of control, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2764.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.J. Hudson, W.D. Taylor, D.W. Schindler, Phosphate concentrations in lakes, Nature 406 (2000) 54–56.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C.A. Brotherton, S. Naz, S.S.-E.-A. Zaidi, A.F. Dennis, A. Hämäläinen, W. Strielkowski, M.-J.A. Lyu, J.K. Wenderott, C. Espinosa-Diez, K. Isaacson, Y. Li, E. Hassan, J.S. Hoyer, J.M. Cusimano, NextGen VOICES: A postdoc’s purpose, Science 360 (2018) 26–27.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W. Schmidt, Optische Spektroskopie, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2000.

An edited book

[1]

D. Li, B. Wang, eds., Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations: IFIP TC12 WG12.5 - Second IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI2005), September 7–9, 2005, Beijing, China, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K.-W. Brand, Sociological Perspectives on Sustainability Communication, in: J. Godemann, G. Michelsen (Eds.), Sustainability Communication: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Theoretical Foundation, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011: pp. 55–68.

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]

T. Hale, This Is What The Ancient Greek “Griffin Warrior” Looked Like, IFLScience (2016).

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, [Comments on Sequesterability of Railroad Supplemental Annuity Pension Fund], U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

H.L. Thixton, Identification of Site-Specific Mycorrhizal Fungi Associates of the Federally Threatened Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid (Platanthera leucophaea) in Illinois, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 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]

B. Shpigel, After 5 Months of Work, U.S. Makes (and Earns) a Vital Point, New York Times (2017) B13.

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