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]

Kideys A E 2002 Ecology. Fall and rise of the Black Sea ecosystem Science 297 1482–4

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bayraktar O A and Doe C Q 2013 Combinatorial temporal patterning in progenitors expands neural diversity Nature 498 449–55

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Levine J H, Lin Y and Elowitz M B 2013 Functional roles of pulsing in genetic circuits Science 342 1193–200

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Zhou Z, Zhen J, Karpowich N K, Goetz R M, Law C J, Reith M E A and Wang D-N 2007 LeuT-desipramine structure reveals how antidepressants block neurotransmitter reuptake Science 317 1390–3

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Nagashima Y 2013 Elementary Particle Physics (Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA)

An edited book

[1]

Winckler M, Johnson H and Palanque P 2007 Task Models and Diagrams for User Interface Design: 6th International Workshop, TAMODIA 2007, Toulouse, France, November 7-9, 2007. Proceedings vol 4849 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Quarteroni A, Saleri F and Gervasio P 2010 Linear systems Scientific Computing with MATLAB and Octave Texts in Computational Science and Engineering ed F Saleri and P Gervasio (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 129–79

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

[1]

Fang J 2016 Ancient Mammal-Like Reptiles Sprouted Whiskers 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office 1983 The Air Force Can Improve Its Maintenance Information Systems (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

[1]

Warren S M 2015 The leadership process: An analysis of follower influence on leader behavior in hospital organizations Doctoral dissertation (Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University)

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]

Dwyer J 2015 A Police Shot to a Boy’s Back, Echoing Since ’73 New York Times A1

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