How to format your references using the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Physics D: Applied 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]

Vignieri S 2014 Vanishing fauna. Introduction Science 345 392–5

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ruths J and Ruths D 2014 Control profiles of complex networks Science 343 1373–6

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Friis E M, Pedersen K R and Crane P R 2001 Fossil evidence of water lilies (Nymphaeales) in the Early Cretaceous Nature 410 357–60

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Harris S R, Feil E J, Holden M T G, Quail M A, Nickerson E K, Chantratita N, Gardete S, Tavares A, Day N, Lindsay J A, Edgeworth J D, de Lencastre H, Parkhill J, Peacock S J and Bentley S D 2010 Evolution of MRSA during hospital transmission and intercontinental spread Science 327 469–74

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Stefanoiu D, Borne P, Popescu D, Filip F G and El Kamel A 2014 Optimization in Engineering Sciences: Approximate and Metaheuristic Methods (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Eskin E and Workman C 2005 Regulatory Genomics: RECOMB 2004 International Workshop, RRG 2004, San Diego, Ca, USA, March 26-27, 2004, Revised Selected Papers vol 3318 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Pratt-Hartmann I 2010 The Two-Variable Fragment with Counting Revisited Logic, Language, Information and Computation: 17th International Workshop, WoLLIC 2010, Brasilia, Brazil, July 6-9, 2010. Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science ed A Dawar and R de Queiroz (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 42–54

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 D: Applied Physics.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D 2017 16 Events From 2016 That Should Give You Hope For The Future 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 2013 Strategic Sourcing: Improved and Expanded Use Could Provide Procurement Savings for Federal Information Technology (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]

Yasa S R 2017 Visual Basic Simulation of H2S Removal from Natural Gas at Downhole in an Extraction Well Doctoral dissertation ( Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana)

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]

Pendleton I 1934 THE HIGHWAY BEAUTIFUL; Private Citizens and State Officials Cooperate to Create Natural Scenery Along Paved Roads New York Times DRAMA SCREEN MUSIC RADIO FASHIONS ARTX12

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 D: Applied Physics
Abbreviation	J. Phys. D Appl. Phys.
ISSN (print)	0022-3727
ISSN (online)	1361-6463
Scope	Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Surfaces, Coatings and Films Acoustics and Ultrasonics Condensed Matter Physics