How to format your references using the Computational Condensed Matter citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computational Condensed Matter. 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]

A. Abbott, A place in the sun, Nature. 446 (2007) 124–125.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A.N. Boettiger, M. Levine, Synchronous and stochastic patterns of gene activation in the Drosophila embryo, Science. 325 (2009) 471–473.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.M. Schneider, A. Nelson, R. Mooney, A synaptic and circuit basis for corollary discharge in the auditory cortex, Nature. 513 (2014) 189–194.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Liu, W. Bai, S. Niu, C. Zhu, S. Yang, A. Chen, Highly sensitive colorimetric detection of 17β-estradiol using split DNA aptamers immobilized on unmodified gold nanoparticles, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7571.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Rajagopal, Sustainable Value Creation in the Fine and Speciality Chemicals Industry, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

G. Even, D. Rawitz, eds., Design and Analysis of Algorithms: First Mediterranean Conference on Algorithms, MedAlg 2012, Kibbutz Ein Gedi, Israel, December 3-5, 2012. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Formenti, A Survey on m-Asynchronous Cellular Automata, in: J. Kari, M. Kutrib, A. Malcher (Eds.), Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems: 19th International Workshop, AUTOMATA 2013, Gießen, Germany, September 17-19, 2013. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 46–66.

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 Computational Condensed Matter.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Permafrost-Eating Bacteria: A New Twist On Thawing Arctic And Global Warming, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/permafrost-eating-bacteria-new-twist-thawing-arctic-and-global-warming/ (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, Federal Vehicle Fleets: Adopting Leading Practices Could Improve Management, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

V. Stanford, Finding theatre from within: Augusto Boal’s Games for Non-Actors in an Introduction to Acting class, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2016.

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]

A. Gates, One Despicable, Another Disdainful, New York Times. (2013) CT10.

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	Computational Condensed Matter
Abbreviation	Comput. Condens. Matter
ISSN (print)	2352-2143
Scope