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

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

Renton P 2004 Has the Higgs boson been discovered? Nature 428 141–4

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wright S I and Barrett S C H 2010 Evolution. The long-term benefits of self-rejection Science 330 459–60

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Song C, Wang P and Makse H A 2008 A phase diagram for jammed matter Nature 453 629–32

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Page N M, Woods R J, Gardiner S M, Lomthaisong K, Gladwell R T, Butlin D J, Manyonda I T and Lowry P J 2000 Excessive placental secretion of neurokinin B during the third trimester causes pre-eclampsia Nature 405 797–800

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Laplante P A and Ovaska S J 2011 Real-Time Systems Design and Analysis (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Mariani J, Rosset S, Garnier-Rizet M and Devillers L 2014 Natural Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones: Putting Spoken Dialog Systems into Practice (New York, NY: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Wołk K and Marasek K 2015 Tuned and GPU-Accelerated Parallel Data Mining from Comparable Corpora Text, Speech, and Dialogue: 18th International Conference, TSD 2015, Pilsen,Czech Republic, September 14-17, 2015, Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science ed P Král and V Matoušek (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 32–40

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 C.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T 2016 Archaeologists Dig Up Britain’s Oldest Handwritten Document In Central London 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 1997 Strategic Mobility: Late Deliveries of Large, Medium Speed Roll-On/Roll-Off Ships (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]

Borisova-Kidder A 2006 Meta-Analytical Estimates of Values of Environmental Services Enhanced by Government Agricultural Conservation Programs Doctoral dissertation (Columbus, OH: Ohio State 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]

Rojas R and Fitzsimmons E G 2016 Crane Collapse Kills Man on Busy Manhattan Block New York Times A16

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 C
ISSN (print)	1674-1137
Scope	Astronomy and Astrophysics Instrumentation Nuclear and High Energy Physics