How to format your references using the Journal of Physics: Conference Series citation style

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

Houllier F 2012 Biotechnology: Bring more rigour to GM research Nature 491 327

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Clark C M and Tilman D 2008 Loss of plant species after chronic low-level nitrogen deposition to prairie grasslands Nature 451 712–5

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Prosser B L, Ward C W and Lederer W J 2011 X-ROS signaling: rapid mechano-chemo transduction in heart Science 333 1440–5

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Giraudo C G, Eng W S, Melia T J and Rothman J E 2006 A clamping mechanism involved in SNARE-dependent exocytosis Science 313 676–80

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Yin G 2011 Clinical Trial Design: Bayesian and Frequentist Adaptive Methods (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Bonate P L and Howard D R 2016 Pharmacokinetics in Drug Development: Problems and Challenges in Oncology, Volume 4 (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bernsen N O and Dybkjær L 2010 Modalities and Devices Multimodal Usability Human-Computer Interaction Series ed L Dybkjær (London: Springer) pp 67–111

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: Conference Series.

Blog post

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Andrew E 2015 How Much Has Global Warming Worsened California’s Drought? Now We Have A Number 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 1979 Proposed Relocation of the Offices of the Social Security Administrator and Staff (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]

Carlson L 2010 From Albéniz to Arbós: The orchestration of “Iberia” Doctoral dissertation (College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park)

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]

Burns A and Remnick N 2016 Pence Breaks Ranks With Trump, Again, to Support Snubbed Republican Senators New York Times A16

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: Conference Series
Abbreviation	J. Phys. Conf. Ser.
ISSN (print)	1742-6588
ISSN (online)	1742-6596
Scope	General Physics and Astronomy