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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

Brumfiel G 2003 Pumping row erodes hopes for underground lab Nature 423 674

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wordsworth R and Pierrehumbert R 2013 Hydrogen-nitrogen greenhouse warming in Earth’s early atmosphere Science 339 64–7

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ackermann M, Stearns S C and Jenal U 2003 Senescence in a bacterium with asymmetric division Science 300 1920

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Egolf D A, Melnikov I V IV, Pesch W and Ecke R E 2000 Mechanisms of extensive spatiotemporal chaos in Rayleigh-Benard convection Nature 404 733–6

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Chappell D 2008 The JCT Minor Works Building Contracts 2005 (Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Ulbrich H and GÜnthner W 2005 IUTAM Symposium on Vibration Control of Nonlinear Mechanisms and Structures: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Munich, Germany, 18–22 July 2005 vol 130 (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Berka T and Vajteršic M 2014 Dimensionality Reduction for Information Retrieval Using Vector Replacement of Rare Terms Data Mining for Service Studies in Big Data ed K Yada (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 41–60

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]

Taub B 2016 800,000-Year-Old Homo Erectus Footprints Found In Eritrea 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 2009 Telecommunications: Broadband Deployment Plan Should Include Performance Goals and Measures to Guide Federal Investment (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]

Weber T R 2010 Tailored charged particle beams from single-component plasmas Doctoral dissertation (La Jolla, CA: University of California San Diego)

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]

Whiteside K 2016 With City Passing By in a Blur, a Star Adds Yet Another Title New York Times F2

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