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]

Schweitzer G E 2008 Policy. Science policy in Kazakhstan Science 322 1474–5

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kaech S M and Ahmed R 2003 Immunology. CD8 T cells remember with a little help Science 300 263–5

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Yoshida S, Sukeno M and Nabeshima Y-I 2007 A vasculature-associated niche for undifferentiated spermatogonia in the mouse testis Science 317 1722–6

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Berndt T, Böge O, Stratmann F, Heintzenberg J and Kulmala M 2005 Rapid formation of sulfuric acid particles at near-atmospheric conditions Science 307 698–700

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hickey R 2013 A Dictionary of Varieties of English (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons)

An edited book

[1]

Habib N A and Canelo R 2006 Liver and Pancreatic Diseases Management vol 574 (Boston, MA: Springer US)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Manfrino R B, Ortega J A G and Delgado R V 2015 Complex Numbers Topics in Algebra and Analysis: Preparing for the Mathematical Olympiad ed J A Gómez Ortega and R Valdez Delgado (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 75–88

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]

Andrew E 2014 Using Seawater To Create Jet Fuel 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 2008 Disconnected Youth: Federal Action Could Address Some of the Challenges Faced by Local Programs That Reconnect Youth to Education and Employment (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]

Rodriguez Gamez L I 2012 New perspectives on the spatial analysis of urban employment distribution and commuting patterns: The cases of Hermosillo and Ciudad Obregon, Mexico Doctoral dissertation (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona)

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]

Crow K 2001 Listening Hard to Softer Cries for Help New York Times 146

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