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 T. Reichhardt, “New form of hydrogen power provokes scepticism,” Nature 404(6775), 218 (2000).

A journal article with 2 authors

¹ L. Roberts, and S. Simpson, “Drug resistance. Deadly defiance. Introduction to special issue,” Science 321(5887), 355 (2008).

A journal article with 3 authors

¹ T. Yamashita, T. Hige, and T. Takahashi, “Vesicle endocytosis requires dynamin-dependent GTP hydrolysis at a fast CNS synapse,” Science 307(5706), 124–127 (2005).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

¹ M.-E. Torres-Padilla, D.-E. Parfitt, T. Kouzarides, and M. Zernicka-Goetz, “Histone arginine methylation regulates pluripotency in the early mouse embryo,” Nature 445(7124), 214–218 (2007).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

¹ R. Ghez, A Primer of Diffusion Problems (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2005).

An edited book

¹ Y. Kamide, and A. Chian, editors , Handbook of the Solar-Terrestrial Environment (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007).

A chapter in an edited book

¹ R. Casarin, M. Tronzano, and D. Sartore, in Advances in Statistical Models for Data Analysis, edited by I. Morlini, T. Minerva, and M. Vichi (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015), pp. 27–34.

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, “Astronomers Reveal Most Detailed Catalog of Milky Way Stars,” IFLScience, (2014).

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, General Government Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

¹ M.L. Forlizzi, Congruency of Supervisor and Counselor Perceptions of Actual and Preferred Counselor Work Behaviors, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2008.

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 B. Brantley, “A Tempest in a Bourbon Bottle,” New York Times, C1 (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

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