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]

Clark J S 2010 Individuals and the variation needed for high species diversity in forest trees Science 327 1129–32

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

McIntosh A R and Lobaugh N J 2003 Neuroscience. When is a word not a word? Science 301 322–3

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Semmann D, Krambeck H-J and Milinski M 2003 Volunteering leads to rock-paper-scissors dynamics in a public goods game Nature 425 390–3

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Kim H-M, Cho Y S, Kim H, Jho S, Son B, Choi J Y, Kim S, Lee B C, Bhak J and Jang G 2013 Whole genome comparison of donor and cloned dogs Sci. Rep. 3 2998

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Thompson A K 2014 Fruit and Vegetables (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Dwivedi Y K, Mäntymäki M, Ravishankar M N, Janssen M, Clement M, Slade E L, Rana N P, Al-Sharhan S and Simintiras A C 2016 Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: 15th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E 2016, Swansea, UK, September 13–15, 2016, Proceedings vol 9844 (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Fuentes R, Gómez-Sanz J J and Pavón J 2006 Requirements Elicitation for Agent-Based Applications Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VI: 6th International Workshop, AOSE 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 25, 2005. Revised and Invited Papers Lecture Notes in Computer Science ed J P Müller and F Zambonelli (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 40–53

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]

O`Callaghan J 2016 Giant Floating Airship Takes Flight In The UK For The First Time 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 1998 Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Significant Risks Remain to Department of Education’s Student Financial Aid Systems (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]

Helgoe C A 2008 The impact of federal policy on teachers’ use of science manipulatives: A survey of teacher philosophy and practices Doctoral dissertation (Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University)

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]

Kenigsberg B 2017 Moscow Never Sleeps New York Times C9

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