How to format your references using the Current Applied Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Applied Physics. 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	Download the output style file
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]

S. Hestrin, Neuroscience. The strength of electrical synapses, Science 334 (2011) 315–316.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.A. Codelli, S.E. Reisman, Chemistry. Pactamycin made easy, Science 340 (2013) 152–153.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.F. Agrawal, E.D. Brodie 3rd, J. Brown, Parent-offspring coadaptation and the dual genetic control of maternal care, Science 292 (2001) 1710–1712.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L. Wang, B. Peng, L. Peng, X. Guo, Z. Xie, W. Ding, Mesostructural Bi-Mo-O catalyst: correct structure leading to high performance, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2881.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T. Makower, Touching the City, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

G. Barthe, ed., Programming Languages and Systems: 20th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2011, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2011, Saarbrücken, Germany, March 26–April 3, 2011. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B. Miyake, N. Zavazava, The Role of NK Cells and T Cells in the Rejection of Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Tissues, in: P.J. Fairchild (Ed.), The Immunological Barriers to Regenerative Medicine, Springer, New York, NY, 2013: pp. 69–76.

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 Current Applied Physics.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, US National Security Could Be Severely Affected By Climate Change Over The Next 20 Years, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/us-national-security-could-be-severely-affected-by-climate-change-over-the-next-20-years/ (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, Educational Achievement Standards: NAGB’s Approach Yields Misleading Interpretations, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.C. Robinson, A Geophysical and Geological Characterization of the Bonanza 3D Survey, Claiborne Group, Saint Landry and Evangeline Parishes, Louisiana, 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]

K. Crow, Pool, Gym or a Bit of Both? Neighbors Mull the Options, New York Times (2000) 147.

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	Current Applied Physics
Abbreviation	Curr. Appl. Phys.
ISSN (print)	1567-1739
Scope	General Materials Science General Physics and Astronomy