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]

Gewin V 2005 Baby blues Nature 433 780–1

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rowley D B and Currie B S 2006 Palaeo-altimetry of the late Eocene to Miocene Lunpola basin, central Tibet Nature 439 677–81

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gupta G, Jalil M B A and Liang G 2014 Effect of band-alignment operation on carrier transport in Bi2Se3 topological insulator Sci. Rep. 4 6220

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Sato C, Ueno Y, Asai K, Takahashi K, Sato M, Engel A and Fujiyoshi Y 2001 The voltage-sensitive sodium channel is a bell-shaped molecule with several cavities Nature 409 1047–51

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Saksena F B 2015 Patient Studies in Valvular, Congenital, and Rarer Forms of Cardiovascular Disease (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Aschenbruck N, Martini P, Meier M and Tölle J 2012 Future Security: 7th Security Research Conference, Future Security 2012, Bonn, Germany, September 4-6, 2012. Proceedings vol 318 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Timm C 2016 Legitimacy and State-Led Economic Policy in Georgia Politics and Legitimacy in Post-Soviet Eurasia ed M Brusis, J Ahrens and M S Wessel (London: Palgrave Macmillan UK) pp 97–120

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]

Andrews R 2017 Why Is This Sea Lion Chasing These Poor King Penguins? 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 1995 Global Warming: Limitations of General Circulation Models and Costs of Modeling Efforts (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]

Bishop-Randol E 2009 Outcomes of the Program of Assertive Community Treatment in Orange County, California Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach)

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]

Kimmelman M 2017 Brexit Clouds New Subway’s Promise New York Times A1

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