How to format your references using the European Journal of Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of 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	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]

Vogel G 2000 GENOMICS: Sanger Will Sequence Zebrafish Genome Science 290 1671b

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Friedman J R and Nunnari J 2014 Mitochondrial form and function Nature 505 335–43

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Yin Q, Jacobsen S B and Yamashita K 2002 Diverse supernova sources of pre-solar material inferred from molybdenum isotopes in meteorites Nature 415 881–3

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Kahneman D, Krueger A B, Schkade D A, Schwarz N and Stone A A 2004 A survey method for characterizing daily life experience: the day reconstruction method Science 306 1776–80

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Dewe P J, O’Driscoll M P and Cooper C L 2010 Coping with Work Stress (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Kiang T K L 2015 Clinical Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Drug Interactions Associated with Antimalarials ed K J Wilby and M H H Ensom (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bishop C 2016 Domestic Violence: The Limitations of a Legal Response Domestic Violence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Protection, Prevention and Intervention ed S Hilder and V Bettinson (London: Palgrave Macmillan UK) pp 59–79

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 European Journal of Physics.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E 2015 Arctic Ice Thinning At Worrisome Rate IFLScience

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 2007 Unified Motor Carrier Fee System: Progress Made but Challenges to Implementing New System Remain (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

El-Amine Z 2010 Waking Up in Beirut Doctoral dissertation (College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park)

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]

Tabor M B W 1995 Media: Publishing; Nobody’s sure what multimedia rights to books are worth. But nobody’s ceding them without a fight New York Times D7

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	European Journal of Physics
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Phys.
ISSN (print)	0143-0807
ISSN (online)	1361-6404
Scope	General Physics and Astronomy