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]

Nogrady B 2014 Immunotherapy: Chemical tricks Nature 513 S10-1

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bringmann H and Hyman A A 2005 A cytokinesis furrow is positioned by two consecutive signals Nature 436 731–4

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Pfeffer W T, Harper J T and O’Neel S 2008 Kinematic constraints on glacier contributions to 21st-century sea-level rise Science 321 1340–3

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Rumpel S, LeDoux J, Zador A and Malinow R 2005 Postsynaptic receptor trafficking underlying a form of associative learning Science 308 83–8

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Green S D 2011 Making Sense of Construction Improvement (Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell)

An edited book

[1]

Fulton J 2010 The Essential Guide to Flash Games: Building Interactive Entertainment with ActionScript 3.0 ed S Fulton (Berkeley, CA: Apress)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Beeldens A, Cassar L and Murata Y 2011 Applications of TiO2 Photocatalysis for Air Purification Applications of Titanium Dioxide Photocatalysis to Construction Materials: State-of-the-Art Report of the RILEM Technical Committee 194-TDP ed Y Ohama and D Van Gemert (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands) pp 23–35

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 The Moment Two Absolute Idiots Attempted To SURF On A Whale Shark 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 Telecommunications: FTS 2000 Cost Comparison (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]

Cornelius D A 2014 The value of Scrum to organizations: A case study Doctoral dissertation (Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix)

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]

Anderson J 2016 Rescuing a Film Rarity, Frame by Frame New York Times AR12

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