How to format your references using the EPJ Quantum Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for EPJ Quantum Technology. 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. Hong W. Science & SciLifeLab Prize. Assembly of a neural circuit. Science. 2013;342:1186.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Weiss RB, Atkins JF. Molecular biology. Translation goes global. Science. 2011;334:1509–10.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Cho MK, McGee G, Magnus D. Research conduct. Lessons of the stem cell scandal. Science. 2006;311:614–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Banerjee A, Bernoulli D, Zhang H, Yuen M-F, Liu J, Dong J, et al. Ultralarge elastic deformation of nanoscale diamond. Science. 2018;360:300–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Storhas W. Bioverfahrensentwicklung. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

1. Corrigan ML, Escuro AA, Kirby DF, editors. Handbook of Clinical Nutrition and Stroke. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Matucha M, Schröder P. Trichloroacetic Acid in the Forest Ecosystem. In: Schröder P, Collins CD, editors. Organic Xenobiotics and Plants: From Mode of Action to Ecophysiology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011. p. 87–103.

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 EPJ Quantum Technology.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. X-ray Video Gives Inside 3D Look at Insect Flying Muscles [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/x-ray-video-gives-inside-3d-look-insect-flying-muscles/

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. Issues to Be Considered During Deliberations to Reauthorize the Federal-Aid Highway Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Mar. Report No.: T-RCED-90-50.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Pan Y. Long-Term Effects of Higher-Quality Early Childhood Education for At-Risk Children on Their Later Development and Resilience [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 2010.

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. Vecsey G. A Tough Hill to Climb, but Not Impossible. New York Times. 2010 Oct 1;B13.

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	EPJ Quantum Technology
Abbreviation	EPJ Quantum Technol.
ISSN (online)	2196-0763
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