How to format your references using the Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids. 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	Download the output style file
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. Frei, Chemistry. Selective hydrocarbon oxidation in zeolites, Science. 313 (2006) 309–310.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Sachdev, S.-C. Zhang, Superconductivity. Tuning order in cuprate superconductors, Science. 295 (2002) 452–454.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Gehring, K.L. Bubb, S. Henikoff, Extensive demethylation of repetitive elements during seed development underlies gene imprinting, Science. 324 (2009) 1447–1451.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Wilhelms, S.R. Larter, I. Head, P. Farrimond, R. di-Primio, C. Zwach, Biodegradation of oil in uplifted basins prevented by deep-burial sterilization, Nature. 411 (2001) 1034–1037.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.T. Smith, Methods of Geometry, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 1999.

An edited book

[1]

S.T. Acuña, N. Juristo, eds., Software Process Modeling, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Cassini, M. Borgnia, Y. Arzamendia, V. Benítez, B. Vilá, Sociality, Foraging and Habitat Use by Vicuña, in: I.J. Gordon (Ed.), The Vicuña: The Theory and Practice of Community Based Wildlife Management, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2009: pp. 35–48.

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 and Chemistry of Solids.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Mysterious Signal Detected- Could It Be From Dark Matter?, 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, Implementation of Section 203, Public Law 91-441, on Payments for Independent Research and Development and Bid and Proposal Costs, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T. Ekici, An Investigation of Credit Card Debt: The Effect of Price and Income Expectations and the Impact on Consumption, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2006.

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]

J. Ryerson, Being and Gnarliness, New York Times. (2017) BR16.

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 and Chemistry of Solids
Abbreviation	J. Phys. Chem. Solids
ISSN (print)	0022-3697
Scope	General Chemistry General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics

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