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

Goodman, M.B.: Eppendorf essay winner. Deconstructing C. elegans sensory mechanotransduction. Science. 306, 427–428 (2004)

A journal article with 2 authors

Miller, L.H., Greenwood, B.: Malaria--a shadow over Africa. Science. 298, 121–122 (2002)

A journal article with 3 authors

Wasan, D.T., Nikolov, A.D., Brenner, H.: Fluid dynamics. Droplets speeding on surfaces. Science. 291, 605–606 (2001)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Choi, S.H., Bylykbashi, E., Chatila, Z.K., Lee, S.W., Pulli, B., Clemenson, G.D., Kim, E., Rompala, A., Oram, M.K., Asselin, C., Aronson, J., Zhang, C., Miller, S.J., Lesinski, A., Chen, J.W., Kim, D.Y., van Praag, H., Spiegelman, B.M., Gage, F.H., Tanzi, R.E.: Combined adult neurogenesis and BDNF mimic exercise effects on cognition in an Alzheimer’s mouse model. Science. 361, (2018)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Münch, V.: Patente, Marken, Design von A bis Z. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany (2009)

An edited book

Rinderle-Ma, S., Sadiq, S., Leymann, F. eds: Business Process Management Workshops: BPM 2009 International Workshops, Ulm, Germany, September 7, 2009. Revised Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2010)

A chapter in an edited book

Schrautzer, J., Rinker, A., Jensen, K., Mϋller, F., Schwartze, P., Dierßen, K.: Succession and Restoration of Drained Fens: Perspectives from Northwestern Europe. In: Walker, L.R., Walker, J., and Hobbs, R.J. (eds.) Linking Restoration and Ecological Succession. pp. 90–120. Springer, New York, NY (2007)

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

Davis, J.: Gluten-Free Foods are no Healthier Than Regular Foods, Study Finds, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gluten-free-diet-really-healthier/

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: DOD Personnel: More Accurate Estimate of Overdue Security Clearance Reinvestigations Is Needed. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2000)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Beyer, P.D.: Authentic Leadership in-extremis: A study of combat leadership, (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

Kelly, M.: The Surrounding Scene; It Seemed Like Donahue. But With Bush, Clinton and Perot, It Sure Wasn’t, (1992)

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