How to format your references using the Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. 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]

Clark J 2009 Paleontology. Becoming T. rex Science 326 373–4

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Zijlstra A A and Davis R J 2012 Retrospective. Sir Bernard Lovell (1913-2012) Science 337 1307

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

He X, Gao L and Ma N 2013 One-step instant synthesis of protein-conjugated quantum dots at room temperature Sci. Rep. 3 2825

A journal article with 99 or more authors

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Yan R, Khalsa G, Vishwanath S, Han Y, Wright J, Rouvimov S, Katzer D S, Nepal N, Downey B P, Muller D A, Xing H G, Meyer D J and Jena D 2018 GaN/NbN epitaxial semiconductor/superconductor heterostructures Nature 555 183–9

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Hens H 2012 Applied Building Physics (Berlin, Germany: Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG)

An edited book

[1]

Sakawa M 2011 Fuzzy Stochastic Multiobjective Programming vol 159, ed I Nishizaki and H Katagiri (New York, NY: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Klees S J 2012 World Bank and Education The World Bank and Education: Critiques and Alternatives ed S J Klees, J Samoff and N P Stromquist (Rotterdam: SensePublishers) pp 49–65

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 Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical.

Blog post

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Luntz S 2015 Meet The “Living Rock” 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

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Government Accountability Office 1989 [Comments on Montana’s Entitlement to Restoration of Rehabilitation Funds] (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

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Loden M R 2010 The rhetorical elephant in the room: How three political action committees are strategically [re]defining the U.S. Republican Party Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach)

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

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Rothenberg B 2017 Fear, Frustration and Fascination: Sharapova on Serena New York Times B10

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 Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Abbreviation	J. Phys. A Math. Theor.
ISSN (print)	1751-8113
ISSN (online)	1751-8121
Scope	Mathematical Physics Modelling and Simulation Statistics and Probability General Physics and Astronomy Statistical and Nonlinear Physics