How to format your references using the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter citation style

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

Knight R 2015 Why microbiome treatments could pay off soon Nature 518 S5

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bouchon M and Vallée M 2003 Observation of long supershear rupture during the magnitude 8.1 Kunlunshan earthquake Science 301 824–6

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Shiu R-F, Chin W-C and Lee C-L 2014 Carbonaceous particles reduce marine microgel formation Sci. Rep. 4 5856

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Oliver K M, Degnan P H, Hunter M S and Moran N A 2009 Bacteriophages encode factors required for protection in a symbiotic mutualism Science 325 992–4

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Welker R W, Nagarajan R and Newberg C E 2005 Contamination and ESD Control in High-Technology Manufacturing (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Perez-Ruiz F 2014 Managing Gout in Primary Care ed A M Herrero-Beites (Tarporley: Springer Healthcare Ltd.)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Heeager L T 2013 The Agile and the Disciplined Software Approaches: Combinable or Just Compatible? Information Systems Development: Reflections, Challenges and New Directions ed R Pooley, J Coady, C Schneider, H Linger, C Barry and M Lang (New York, NY: Springer) pp 35–49

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: Condensed Matter.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A 2016 Some Martian Lakes Formed Much Later Than We Expected 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 1993 Tax Abatement (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]

Albers C 2015 One Academic Year Study of Experiences of One Cohort of Graduates from a Midwestern University’s Teacher Education Program Doctoral dissertation ( St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood 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]

Feeney K 2008 Homey Food That Speaks Of Brazil New York Times NJ22

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: Condensed Matter
Abbreviation	J. Phys. Condens. Matter
ISSN (print)	0953-8984
ISSN (online)	1361-648X
Scope	General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics