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 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]

Barron M 2008 Science & music: raising the roof Nature 453 859–60

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wang K and Mittleman D M 2004 Metal wires for terahertz wave guiding Nature 432 376–9

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Deleault N R, Lucassen R W and Supattapone S 2003 RNA molecules stimulate prion protein conversion Nature 425 717–20

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Miyamichi K, Amat F, Moussavi F, Wang C, Wickersham I, Wall N R, Taniguchi H, Tasic B, Huang Z J, He Z, Callaway E M, Horowitz M A and Luo L 2011 Cortical representations of olfactory input by trans-synaptic tracing Nature 472 191–6

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Keene J 2008 Clients with Complex Needs: Interprofessional Practice (Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Orrell J and Curtis D D 2016 Publishing Higher Degree Research: Making the Transition from Student to Researcher (Rotterdam: SensePublishers)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Muehlenbein M P 2013 Human-Wildlife Contact and Emerging Infectious Diseases Human-Environment Interactions: Current and Future Directions ed E S Brondízio and E F Moran (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands) pp 79–94

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]

Davis J 2017 Ancient Fossil Shows First Evidence Of Live Births In Animals Thought To Only Lay Eggs 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 1986 Deaf Education: Costs and Student Characteristics at Federally Assisted Schools (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]

Johnson C 2012 Directed blogging with community college ESL students: Its effects on awareness of language acquisition processes Doctoral dissertation (Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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]

Brantley B 2017 Channeling Anger Into Music in a Summer of Discontent New York Times C2

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