How to format your references using the Chinese Physics B citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chinese Physics B. 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]

McGillicuddy D J Jr 2011 Oceans. Eddies masquerade as planetary waves Science 334 318–9

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kelley N P and Pyenson N D 2015 Vertebrate evolution. Evolutionary innovation and ecology in marine tetrapods from the Triassic to the Anthropocene Science 348 aaa3716

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Muchnik L, Aral S and Taylor S J 2013 Social influence bias: a randomized experiment Science 341 647–51

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Homes C C, Tu J J, Li J, Gu G D and Akrap A 2013 Optical conductivity of nodal metals Sci. Rep. 3 3446

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bragg S M 2011 The New CEO Corporate Leadership Manual (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Kawakami K and Okochi I 2010 Restoring the Oceanic Island Ecosystem: Impact and Management of Invasive Alien Species in the Bonin Islands (Tokyo: Springer Japan)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gosavi A and Murray S 2010 Simulation-based Methods for Studying Reliability and Preventive Maintenance of Public Infrastructure Simulation Methods for Reliability and Availability of Complex Systems Springer Series in Reliability Engineering ed J Faulin, A A Juan, S Martorell and J-E Ramírez-Márquez (London: Springer) pp 107–21

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 Physics B.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R 2015 Your Cat’s Fur Color Is Linked To Its Aggressiveness 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 2003 Business Modernization: NASA’s Challenges in Managing Its Integrated Financial Management Program (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]

Tom D M 2012 Impact on achievement with ST math after school instruction 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]

Kanter J, Kramer A E and Reed S 2017 Gazprom Makes Concessions to E.U., Defusing an Antitrust Standoff New York Times B4

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 Physics B
Abbreviation	Chin. Physics B
ISSN (print)	1674-1056
Scope	General Physics and Astronomy