How to format your references using the Entropy citation style

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

von Hohenheim, T. A Leap of Faith. Nature 2000, 407, 949.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schultz, T.F.; Kay, S.A. Circadian Clocks in Daily and Seasonal Control of Development. Science 2003, 301, 326–328.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bo, T.-L.; Zhang, H.; Zheng, X.-J. Charge-to-Mass Ratio of Saltating Particles in Wind-Blown Sand. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5590.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hasegawa, Y.; Loidl, R.; Badurek, G.; Baron, M.; Rauch, H. Violation of a Bell-like Inequality in Single-Neutron Interferometry. Nature 2003, 425, 45–48.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fortey, R.A.; Bruton, D.L. Lower Ordovician Trilobites of the Kirtonryggen Formation, Spitsbergen; The Lethaia Foundation: Norway, 2013; ISBN 9781118850657.

An edited book

Telematics - Support for Transport: 14th International Conference on Transport Systems Telematics, TST 2014, Katowice/Kraków/Ustroń, Poland, October 22-25, 2014. Selected Papers; Mikulski, J., Ed.; Communications in Computer and Information Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014; Vol. 471; ISBN 9783662453162.

A chapter in an edited book

Pfliegler, G. Visual and Oculomotor Disorders in Internal Diseases. In Neuro-Ophthalmology; Somlai, J., Kovács, T., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 19–25 ISBN 9783319289540.

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 Entropy.

Blog post

Luntz, S. Doubt Cast On The Acceleration Of The Expansion Of The Universe Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/doubt-cast-on-the-acceleration-of-the-expansion-of-the-universe/ (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 Commercial Space Launch Insurance: Weakness in FAA’s Insurance Calculation May Expose the Federal Government to Excess Risk; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2017;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Koonin, L.M. Acceptability of Pharmacies Serving as Primary Dispensers of Antiviral Drugs during an Influenza Pandemic: Perspectives of Pharmacy Executives. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina: Chapel Hill, NC, 2013.

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

Gordon, M.R. How the President Wrongly Blamed The Times for a Terrorist’s Survival. New York Times 2017, A11.

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	Entropy
Abbreviation	Entropy (Basel)
ISSN (online)	1099-4300
Scope	General Physics and Astronomy