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]

Miller K D 2010 Neuroscience. π = visual cortex Science 330 1059–60

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wentz F J and Ricciardulli L 2011 Comment on “Global trends in wind speed and wave height” Science 334 905; author reply 905

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kiesecker J M, Blaustein A R and Belden L K 2001 Complex causes of amphibian population declines Nature 410 681–4

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Yao Y, Tang H, Ren H, Yu H, Wang L, Zhang W, Behrman E J and Xu P 2013 Iron(II)-dependent dioxygenase and N-formylamide deformylase catalyze the reactions from 5-hydroxy-2-pyridone to maleamate Sci. Rep. 3 3235

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Adams D J, Dyson P J and Tavener S J 2005 Chemistry in Alternative Reaction Media (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Shi Y, Albada G D van, Dongarra J and Sloot P M A 2007 Computational Science – ICCS 2007: 7th International Conference, Beijing, China, May 27 - 30, 2007, Proceedings, Part I vol 4487 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ismadji S, Soetaredjo F E and Ayucitra A 2015 The Equilibrium Studies in the Adsorption of Hazardous Substances Using Clay Minerals Clay Materials for Environmental Remediation SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science ed F E Soetaredjo and A Ayucitra (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 57–91

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]

Hamilton K 2016 Of Bears And Biases: Scientific Judgment And The Fate Of Yellowstone’s Grizzlies 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 1991 Transportation Infrastructure: Highway Program Consolidation (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]

Canan D 2016 Action Research Study on the Gradual Release of Responsibility, Critical Thinking Skills and Use of Intertextuality in a Midwest Suburban High School Setting Doctoral dissertation ( St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood 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]

Lichtblau E 2016 N.R.A.’s Wins in Congress Grow With Lobbyist’s Role New York Times A19

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