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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Mathematical 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 M.K. Debe, “Electrocatalyst approaches and challenges for automotive fuel cells,” Nature 486(7401), 43–51 (2012).

A journal article with 2 authors

¹ S.A. Golder, and M.W. Macy, “Diurnal and seasonal mood vary with work, sleep, and daylength across diverse cultures,” Science 333(6051), 1878–1881 (2011).

A journal article with 3 authors

¹ C. Venditti, A. Meade, and M. Pagel, “Multiple routes to mammalian diversity,” Nature 479(7373), 393–396 (2011).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

¹ C.A. Neumann, D.S. Krause, C.V. Carman, S. Das, D.P. Dubey, J.L. Abraham, R.T. Bronson, Y. Fujiwara, S.H. Orkin, and R.A. Van Etten, “Essential role for the peroxiredoxin Prdx1 in erythrocyte antioxidant defence and tumour suppression,” Nature 424(6948), 561–565 (2003).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

¹ J.D. Waye, J. Aisenberg, and P.H. Rubin, Practical Colonoscopy (Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford, UK, 2013).

An edited book

¹ R.F. Paige, editor , Theory and Practice of Model Transformations: Second International Conference, ICMT 2009, Zurich, Switzerland, June 29-30, 2009. Proceedings (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009).

A chapter in an edited book

¹ H. Ulrich Hoppe, in Interactive Artifacts and Furniture Supporting Collaborative Work and Learning, edited by P. Dillenbourg, J. Huang, and M. Cherubini (Springer US, Boston, MA, 2009), pp. 1–17.

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 Mathematical Physics.

Blog post

¹ E. Andrew, “Machinery In Nature,” IFLScience, (2013).

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, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites: Steps Remain in Incorporating Lessons Learned from Other Satellite Programs (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

¹ J. Beck, An Inquiry into Theory Use in HCI Research, Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 2017.

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.J.O. Murphy, “The Pokemon Go of the 1930s: Excuse Me, I Need to Find a Monkey and Head to the Waldorf,” New York Times, C23 (2016).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Mathematical Physics
Abbreviation	J. Math. Phys.
ISSN (print)	0022-2488
ISSN (online)	1089-7658
Scope	Mathematical Physics Statistical and Nonlinear Physics