How to format your references using the High Energy Density Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for High Energy Density 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	Download the output style file
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]

R.W. Boyd, Physics. Let quantum mechanics improve your images, Science 321 (2008) 501–502.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.N. Thompson, S.A. Gibson, Transient high temperatures in mantle plume heads inferred from magnesian olivines in Phanerozoic picrites, Nature 407 (2000) 502–506.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y. Zhao, C. Tong, J. Jiang, Hedgehog regulates smoothened activity by inducing a conformational switch, Nature 450 (2007) 252–258.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.T. Nishimura, M. Stein, B.-H. Hou, J.P. Vogel, H. Edwards, S.C. Somerville, Loss of a callose synthase results in salicylic acid-dependent disease resistance, Science 301 (2003) 969–972.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S.V. Vaseghi, Advanced Digital Signal Processing and Noise Reduction, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2001.

An edited book

[1]

J.N. Kok, J. Koronacki, R.L. de Mantaras, S. Matwin, D. Mladenič, A. Skowron, eds., Machine Learning: ECML 2007: 18th European Conference on Machine Learning, Warsaw, Poland, September 17-21, 2007. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

F.C. Delicato, P.F. Pires, T. Batista, The Programming and Execution Module (PEM), in: P.F. Pires, T. Batista (Eds.), Middleware Solutions for the Internet of Things, Springer, London, 2013: pp. 45–55.

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 High Energy Density Physics.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, How The Giraffe Got Its Neck, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-giraffe-got-its-neck/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, The Army’s Risk Assessment of Chemical Munitions Transportation, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. Barger, A Quantitative Study of Educational Poverty, School Location, and Student Achievement Measured by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 2014.

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]

M. Pilon, Winning Teams Linked With Declining Grades, New York Times (2011) B14.

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	High Energy Density Physics
Abbreviation	High Energy Density Phys.
ISSN (print)	1574-1818
Scope	Nuclear and High Energy Physics Radiation