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]

Fields S 2007 Molecular biology. Site-seeing by sequencing Science 316 1441–2

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Tregenza T and Wedell N 2002 Polyandrous females avoid costs of inbreeding Nature 415 71–3

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Haskell J P, Ritchie M E and Olff H 2002 Fractal geometry predicts varying body size scaling relationships for mammal and bird home ranges Nature 418 527–30

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Lee B, Yoon C S, Lee H R, Chung K Y, Cho B W and Oh S H 2014 Electrochemically-induced reversible transition from the tunneled to layered polymorphs of manganese dioxide Sci. Rep. 4 6066

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Illian J, Penttinen A, Stoyan H and Stoyan D 2008 Statistical Analysis and Modelling of Spatial Point Patterns (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Ring J, Przybilla B and Ruzicka T 2006 Handbook of Atopic Eczema (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Besenbacher S, Schwikowski B and Stoye J 2010 Indexing and Searching a Mass Spectrometry Database Algorithms and Applications: Essays Dedicated to Esko Ukkonen on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday Lecture Notes in Computer Science ed T Elomaa, H Mannila and P Orponen (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 62–76

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]

Luntz S 2017 Some Of The Earth’s Original Crust Survives In Northern Canada 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 1989 Space Operations: NASA’s Communications Support for Earth Orbiting Spacecraft (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]

Schmittel M 2013 The Children First Foundation Parenting Education Program: A Study on the Effectiveness of a Divorce Parenting Education Program Doctoral dissertation (Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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]

Kishkovsky S 2002 Russian Troops Seal Off Town In Search for Chechen Rebels New York Times 13

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