How to format your references using the Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical 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]

Padma T V 2005 Ayurveda Nature 436 486

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ito T and Handa H 2015 Myeloid disease: Another action of a thalidomide derivative Nature 523 167–8

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Xing L, Li X and Snider W D 2015 Neurodevelopment. “RASopathic” astrocytes constrain neural plasticity Science 348 636–7

A journal article with 99 or more authors

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Nazirzadeh M A, Atar F B, Turgut B B and Okyay A K 2014 Random sized plasmonic nanoantennas on Silicon for low-cost broad-band near-infrared photodetection Sci. Rep. 4 7103

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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Shaw M T 2011 Introduction to Polymer Rheology (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Davis R L 2009 Pro SQL Server 2008 Mirroring ed K Simmons (Berkeley, CA: Apress)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Geiger H H and Miedaner T 2009 Rye (Secale cereale L.) Cereals ed M J Carena (New York, NY: Springer US) pp 157–81

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 B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics.

Blog post

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Fang J 2014 Scarlet Kingsnake Still Mimics Extinct Venomous Species 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 2000 Information Technology Investment Management: A Framework for Assessing and Improving Process Maturity (Exposure Draft) (Superseded by GAO-04-394G) (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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Garcia C A 2010 Tracking chemistry self-efficacy and achievement in a preparatory chemistry course Doctoral dissertation (Tampa, FL: University of South Florida)

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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Kenigsberg B 2017 Film Series New York Times C23

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 B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Abbreviation	J. Phys. B At. Mol. Opt. Phys.
ISSN (print)	0953-4075
ISSN (online)	1361-6455
Scope	Condensed Matter Physics Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics