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]

Finkel E 2000 SCIENCE FUNDING: Australian Researchers Go for the Gold Science 290 255–7

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rettig J and Neher E 2002 Emerging roles of presynaptic proteins in Ca++-triggered exocytosis Science 298 781–5

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Thürmer K, Hwang R Q and Bartelt N C 2006 Surface self-organization caused by dislocation networks Science 311 1272–4

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Adamczyk K, Prémont-Schwarz M, Pines D, Pines E and Nibbering E T J 2009 Real-time observation of carbonic acid formation in aqueous solution Science 326 1690–4

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Khatib T and Elmenreich W 2016 Modeling of Photovoltaic Systems Using MATLAB ® (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Gregor J 2011 Discovering Mathematics: A Problem-Solving Approach to Mathematical Analysis with MATHEMATICA® and Maple^TM ed J Tišer (London: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hua C, Zhao H-J and Chen Y 2008 Mining XML Frequent Query Patterns Integration and Innovation Orient to E-Society Volume 1: Seventh IFIP International Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E2007), October 10–12, Wuhan, China IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing ed W Wang, Y Li, Z Duan, L Yan, H Li and X Yang (Boston, MA: Springer US) pp 26–34

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]

Hale T 2016 Watching This Video Will Crash Your iPhone 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 2007 U.S. Involvement at Major International Air Shows Principally Depends on Agencies’ Missions and Aerospace Companies’ Resources (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]

Zhao L 2017 Modeling, Estimation and Approximation in Structured Models Doctoral dissertation ( Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana)

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]

Gregory Mankiw N and Summers L H 2015 Uniting Behind a Divisive Health Tax New York Times BU6

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

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