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]

Schiermeier Q 2005 Bridging the gap in the German economy Nature 436 1087

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Sahin M and Sur M 2015 Genes, circuits, and precision therapies for autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders Science 350

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Garlaschelli D, Caldarelli G and Pietronero L 2003 Universal scaling relations in food webs Nature 423 165–8

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Zhu Z, Dennell R, Huang W, Wu Y, Qiu S, Yang S, Rao Z, Hou Y, Xie J, Han J and Ouyang T 2018 Hominin occupation of the Chinese Loess Plateau since about 2.1 million years ago Nature 559 608–12

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Pan C T, Hwang Y M, Lin L and Chen Y-C 2014 Design and Fabrication of Self-Powered Micro-Harvesters (Singapore: John Wiley & Sons, Singapore Pte. Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Ford J D and Berrang-Ford L 2011 Climate Change Adaptation in Developed Nations: From Theory to Practice vol 42 (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Jain A 2014 Contact Dynamics Formulation Using Minimal Coordinates Multibody Dynamics: Computational Methods and Applications Computational Methods in Applied Sciences ed Z Terze (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 93–121

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

[1]

Fang J 2014 Glowing Mice Reveal Where Quantum Dots Go 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 Earth Observing System: Concerns Over NASA’s Basic Research Funding Strategy (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]

Elizalde K 2014 Relationship between Latino adolescents and their mental health well-being: A quantitative study Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach)

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]

Slotnik D E 2017 Greg Marius, 59, Impresario of Harlem Street Ball New York Times B16

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