How to format your references using the Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (JPP). 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

Reich J. Science 2015; 347: 34-35.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lutz W and Kc S. Science 2011; 333: 587-592.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wilson AH, Shirey SB and Carlson RW. Nature 2003; 423: 858-861.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hubert-Ferrari A, Barka A, Jacques E, Nalbant SS, Meyer B, Armijo R, Tapponnier P and King GC. Nature 2000; 404: 269-273.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scheer J. Failed Bridges. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2010.

An edited book

Bandyopadhyay S. Classification and Learning Using Genetic Algorithms: Applications in Bioinformatics and Web Intelligence. (Pal SK, ed.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen W and Shen S. In Yan L, ed. Operative Techniques in Liver Resection. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2016; 21-42.

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 Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines.

Blog post

Andrew E. 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

Government Accountability Office. National Airspace System: Better Cost Data Could Improve FAA’s Management of the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Sidwell MD. 2017.

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

Roach M. New York Times. March 26, 2013:D6.

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 Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
ISSN (print)	1088-4246
ISSN (online)	1099-1409
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