How to format your references using the Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. 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]

Saper C B 2006 Biomedicine. Life, the universe, and body temperature Science 314 773–4

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rainey P B and Rainey K 2003 Evolution of cooperation and conflict in experimental bacterial populations Nature 425 72–4

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kokoeva M V, Yin H and Flier J S 2005 Neurogenesis in the hypothalamus of adult mice: potential role in energy balance Science 310 679–83

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Faustman D L, Tran S D, Kodama S, Lodde B M, Szalayova I, Key S, Toth Z E and Mezey E 2006 Comment on papers by Chong et al., Nishio et al., and Suri et al. on diabetes reversal in NOD mice Science 314 1243; author reply 1243

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Bayuk J L, Healey J, Rohmeyer P, Sachs M H, Schmidt J and Weiss J 2012 Cyber Security Policy Guidebook (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Wilson-Rawls J and Kusumi K 2016 Innovations in Molecular Mechanisms and Tissue Engineering (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Buchhalter J R 2010 Epileptic Syndromes Atlas of Epilepsies ed C P Panayiotopoulos (London: Springer) pp 17–22

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 Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment.

Blog post

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Andrew E 2015 What Does Australia’s New 2030 Climate Target Mean For The Local Coal Industry? 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

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Government Accountability Office 1990 Monte Canfield, Jr., 1974-1978 (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

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Chung J 2009 Understanding caregiving for older adults with dementia in Korean American families 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

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B Y Robert Kelly;, who teaches at Bard College, is a Poet Whose, Music ’ ’not This Island and ’ ’ Will be Published 1986 A LOVE AFFAIR WITH SILENCE New York Times 721

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 Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
Abbreviation	J. Stat. Mech.
ISSN (online)	1742-5468
Scope	Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty Statistics and Probability Statistical and Nonlinear Physics