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 H. Wessells, “Another green world. There’s more to industrial waste than chimneys and slag heaps,” Nature 405(6788), 741 (2000).

A journal article with 2 authors

¹ P.R. Ehrlich, and D. Kennedy, “Sustainability. Millennium assessment of human behavior,” Science 309(5734), 562–563 (2005).

A journal article with 3 authors

¹ Y. Klein, E. Efrati, and E. Sharon, “Shaping of elastic sheets by prescription of non-Euclidean metrics,” Science 315(5815), 1116–1120 (2007).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

¹ E. Mancera, R. Bourgon, A. Brozzi, W. Huber, and L.M. Steinmetz, “High-resolution mapping of meiotic crossovers and non-crossovers in yeast,” Nature 454(7203), 479–485 (2008).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

¹ D.K. Misra, Practical Electromagnetics (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2006).

An edited book

¹ D.T.L. Shek, Y.K. Chan, and P.S.N. Lee, editors , Quality-of-Life Research in Chinese, Western and Global Contexts (Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2005).

A chapter in an edited book

¹ N. Kim, “Cultural Attitudes and Horse Technologies: A View on Chariots and Stirrups from the Eastern End of the Eurasian Continent,” in Science between Europe and Asia: Historical Studies on the Transmission, Adoption and Adaptation of Knowledge, edited by F. Günergun and D. Raina, (Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011), pp. 57–73.

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 J. Davis, “Evidence For The Earliest Oxygen-Producing Organisms Found In 3.4-BILLION-Year-Old Rocks,” 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, Issues Related to FAA’s Effectiveness (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

¹ K.L. Roberson, Patient and Family Engagement Initiative: A Quantitative Causal-Comparative Analysis, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 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.R. Gordon, “Trump Advisers Call for More Troops to Break Deadlock in Afghan War,” New York Times, A4 (2017).

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