How to format your references using the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data. 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 F. Jordan, “Biochemistry. How active sites communicate in thiamine enzymes,” Science 306(5697), 818–820 (2004).

A journal article with 2 authors

¹ T. Weber, and C. Deutsch, “Oceanic nitrogen reservoir regulated by plankton diversity and ocean circulation,” Nature 489(7416), 419–422 (2012).

A journal article with 3 authors

¹ H. Jung, H.W. Green II, and L.F. Dobrzhinetskaya, “Intermediate-depth earthquake faulting by dehydration embrittlement with negative volume change,” Nature 428(6982), 545–549 (2004).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

¹ A. Javey, J. Guo, Q. Wang, M. Lundstrom, and H. Dai, “Ballistic carbon nanotube field-effect transistors,” Nature 424(6949), 654–657 (2003).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

¹ H. Bannwarth, Liquid Ring Vacuum Pumps, Compressors and Systems (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2005).

An edited book

¹ F. Otto, and M.P. Lutz, editors , Early Gastrointestinal Cancers (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012).

A chapter in an edited book

¹ A. Shirikyan, “Exponential Mixing for Randomly Forced Partial Differential Equations: Method of Coupling,” in Instability in Models Connected with Fluid Flows II, edited by C. Bardos and A. Fursikov, (Springer, New York, NY, 2008), pp. 155–188.

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 Physical and Chemical Reference Data.

Blog post

¹ E. Andrew, “The Road To Paris: Three Myths About International Climate Talks,” IFLScience, (2015).

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, Bridge Improvements: States Exercise Discretion in Selecting Projects Using Federal-Aid Funds (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

¹ A.P. Cuomo, SB 48 and Social Media: Constituing an Audience for and against California’s LGBT Education Legislation, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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 D.J. Wakin, and M.W. Walsh, “Other Orchestras Fear Paying Price for Philadelphia Pension Crisis,” New York Times, C1 (2011).

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 Physical and Chemical Reference Data
Abbreviation	J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data
ISSN (print)	0047-2689
ISSN (online)	1529-7845
Scope	General Chemistry Physical and Theoretical Chemistry General Physics and Astronomy