How to format your references using the Few-Body Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Few-Body Systems. 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

Thomas, D.J.: Evidence for deep-water production in the North Pacific Ocean during the early Cenozoic warm interval. Nature. 430, 65–68 (2004)

A journal article with 2 authors

Hellmann, H., Estelle, M.: Plant development: regulation by protein degradation. Science. 297, 793–797 (2002)

A journal article with 3 authors

Rhew, R.C., Miller, B.R., Weiss, R.F.: Natural methyl bromide and methyl chloride emissions from coastal salt marshes. Nature. 403, 292–295 (2000)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Weijers, D., Geldner, N., Offringa, R., Jürgens, G.: Seed development: Early paternal gene activity in Arabidopsis. Nature. 414, 709–710 (2001)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Langley-Evans, S.: Nutrition, health and disease. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2015)

An edited book

Rostan, M., Vaira, M. eds: Questioning Excellence in Higher Education: Policies, Experiences and Challenges in National and Comparative Perspective. SensePublishers, Rotterdam (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Arinaminpathy, N., Metcalf, C.J.E., Grenfell, B.T.: Viral Dynamics and Mathematical Models. In: Kaslow, R.A., Stanberry, L.R., and Le Duc, J.W. (eds.) Viral Infections of Humans: Epidemiology and Control. pp. 81–96. Springer US, Boston, MA (2014)

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 Few-Body Systems.

Blog post

Andrew, D.: Meet Savannasaurus, Australia’s Newest Titanosaur, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/meet-savannasaurus-australias-newest-titanosaur/

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: International Space Station: Approaches for Ensuring Utilization through 2020 Are Reasonable but Should Be Revisited as NASA Gains More Knowledge of On-Orbit Performance. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2011)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bankapura, S.: Packet adaptive routing in communication network, (2016)

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

Ratliff, B.: An Online Record Shop for the Faster, Punker Set, (2016)

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	Few-Body Systems
ISSN (print)	0177-7963
ISSN (online)	1432-5411
Scope	Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics