How to format your references using the Comptes rendus - Physique citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Comptes rendus - Physique. 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]

K. Stefánsson, Genome-sequencing anniversary. An anniversary party, Science 331 (2011) 691.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A.A. Beg, P. Scheiffele, Neuroscience. SUMO wrestles the synapse, Science 311 (2006) 962–963.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Song, S. Havlin, H.A. Makse, Self-similarity of complex networks, Nature 433 (2005) 392–395.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Farquhar, B.A. Wing, K.D. McKeegan, J.W. Harris, P. Cartigny, M.H. Thiemens, Mass-independent sulfur of inclusions in diamond and sulfur recycling on early Earth, Science 298 (2002) 2369–2372.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S.Y. Yan, Computational Number Theory and Modern Cryptography, John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd., Fusionopolis Walk, Singapore, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

R.S. Gonzalez, Non-Neoplastic Liver Pathology: A Pathologist’s Survival Guide, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Wilson, The Education and Training of Knowledge Workers, in: J. Zajda, K. Freeman, M. Geo-Jaja, S. Majhanovic, V. Rust, R. Zajda (Eds.), International Handbook on Globalisation, Education and Policy Research: Global Pedagogies and Policies, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2005: pp. 49–64.

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 Comptes rendus - Physique.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, “Very Right Wing” Europeans Are The Most Satisfied With Their Sex Lives, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/very-right-wing-europeans-are-the-most-satisfied-with-their-sex-lives/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, Telecommunications: History and Current Issues Related to Radio Spectrum Management, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Mahmud, Comparing the Performance of Bottom-Moored and Unmanned Surface Vehicle Towed Passive Acoustic Monitoring Platforms for Marine Mammal Detections, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2017.

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]

J. Koblin, How Colbert Finally Got Real, New York Times (2017) B1.

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	Comptes rendus - Physique
Abbreviation	C. R. Phys.
ISSN (print)	1631-0705
Scope	General Physics and Astronomy