How to format your references using the Condensed Matter citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for 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 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

Temple, S. The Development of Neural Stem Cells. Nature 2001, 414, 112–117.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boehme, C.; McCamey, D.R. Physics. Nuclear-Spin Quantum Memory Poised to Take the Lead. Science 2012, 336, 1239–1240.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ellwood, M.J.; Wille, M.; Maher, W. Glacial Silicic Acid Concentrations in the Southern Ocean. Science 2010, 330, 1088–1091.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schilling, M.M.; Oeser, J.K.; Boustead, J.N.; Flemming, B.P.; O’Brien, R.M. Gluconeogenesis: Re-Evaluating the FOXO1-PGC-1alpha Connection. Nature 2006, 443, E10-1.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Early, W.F., II Contractor and Client Relations to Assure Process Safety; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2010; ISBN 9780470935132.

An edited book

Advances in Fluid-Structure Interaction: Updated Contributions Reflecting New Findings Presented at the ERCOFTAC Symposium on Unsteady Separation in Fluid-Structure Interaction, 17-21 June 2013, St John Resort, Mykonos, Greece; Braza, M., Bottaro, A., Thompson, M., Eds.; Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; Vol. 133; ISBN 9783319273846.

A chapter in an edited book

Marzin, J.; Daviron, B.; Rafflegeau, S. Family Farming and Other Forms of Agriculture. In Family Farming and the Worlds to Come; Sourisseau, J.-M., Ed.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2015; pp. 71–89 ISBN 9789401793575.

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 Condensed Matter.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. Astronomers Have Found “Light Echoes” Of Black Holes Feeding On Stars Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-have-found-light-echoes-of-black-holes-feeding-on-stars/ (accessed on 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes; 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

Meeks, J.D. From the Belly of the HUAC: The HUAC Investigations of Hollywood, 1947–1952. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park: College Park, MD, 2009.

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

Weiser, B.; Walsh, M.W. Ramapo Official Charged in Securities Fraud Case. New York Times 2016, A23.

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	Condensed Matter
Abbreviation	Condens. Matter
ISSN (online)	2410-3896
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