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]

Bains W 2012 Comment on “Orthographic processing in baboons (Papio papio)” Science 337 1173; author reply 1173

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Chudinovskikh L and Boehler R 2001 High-pressure polymorphs of olivine and the 660-km seismic discontinuity Nature 411 574–7

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Grafton R Q, Kompas T and Hilborn R W 2007 Economics of overexploitation revisited Science 318 1601

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Cawkwell M J, Nguyen-Manh D, Woodward C, Pettifor D G and Vitek V 2005 Origin of brittle cleavage in iridium Science 309 1059–62

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Alvarez P J J and Illman W A 2005 Bioremediation and Natural Attenuation (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Gil-Aluja J, Terceño-Gómez A, Ferrer-Comalat J C, Merigó-Lindahl J M and Linares-Mustarós S 2015 Scientific Methods for the Treatment of Uncertainty in Social Sciences vol 377 (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Zhao L, Sakr S, Liu A and Bouguettaya A 2014 Database Replication of NoSQL Database-as-a-Service Cloud Data Management ed S Sakr, A Liu and A Bouguettaya (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 67–80

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]

Andrew E 2015 Coral Reefs’ Physical Conditions Set Biological Rules Of Nature – Until People Show Up 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 1996 DOE’s Laboratory Facilities (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]

Randall M H 2006 Information Technology Certification Programs and Perceptions of Attitude and Need by High School Principals, Information Technology Teachers, and Information Technology Professionals in Ohio Doctoral dissertation (Columbus, OH: Ohio State 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]

Yablonsky L 2007 Eye Spy New York Times 6228

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