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

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

Lozier M S 2010 Deconstructing the conveyor belt Science 328 1507–11

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Levitt S D and List J A 2008 Economics. Homo economicus evolves Science 319 909–10

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Wardle D A, Nilsson M-C and Zackrisson O 2008 Fire-derived charcoal causes loss of forest humus Science 320 629

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Skotheim J M, Di Talia S, Siggia E D and Cross F R 2008 Positive feedback of G1 cyclins ensures coherent cell cycle entry Nature 454 291–6

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

McMaster M C 2010 Buying and Selling Laboratory Instruments (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Rizvi S A and Coyle P K 2011 Clinical Neuroimmunology: Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders (Totowa, NJ: Humana Press)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lin L, Hedayat A S and Wu W 2012 Sample Size and Power Statistical Tools for Measuring Agreement ed A S Hedayat and W Wu (New York, NY: Springer) pp 71–4

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 Journal of High Energy Physics.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T 2016 50 Years Ago, We Were Taking The First Photos From The Moon 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 2002 NASA Contract Payments (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]

Moore D L 2012 The Challenge Program: A quantitative analysis of strategies designed to eliminate the achievement gap Doctoral dissertation ( St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood University)

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]

Oestreich J R 2016 A Festival to Re-energize Your Inner Self New York Times C1

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	Journal of High Energy Physics
ISSN (online)	1029-8479
Scope