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]

Boggs G R 2010 Science education. Growing roles for science education in community colleges Science 329 1151–2

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Horn P J and Peterson C L 2002 Molecular biology. Chromatin higher order folding--wrapping up transcription Science 297 1824–7

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Riemer J, Bulleid N and Herrmann J M 2009 Disulfide formation in the ER and mitochondria: two solutions to a common process Science 324 1284–7

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Bell R E, Studinger M, Tikku A A, Clarke G K C, Gutner M M and Meertens C 2002 Origin and fate of Lake Vostok water frozen to the base of the East Antarctic ice sheet Nature 416 307–10

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Freeman R L 2002 Reference Manual for Telecommunications Engineering (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Rockstuhl C and Scharf T 2013 Amorphous Nanophotonics (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Cicchetti A, Di Ruscio D and Pierantonio A 2009 Managing Dependent Changes in Coupled Evolution Theory and Practice of Model Transformations: Second International Conference, ICMT 2009, Zurich, Switzerland, June 29-30, 2009. Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science ed R F Paige (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 35–51

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 2013 Could a supernova be visible from Earth in the next 50 years? 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 1983 The Effects of Changes in the Telecommunications Industry on FCC Operations (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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Kolaski G W 2010 Cultural awareness and the U.S. military advisor in the Arab Middle East: A phenomenological 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]

Hartman S 2016 The Pie Maker’s Tale New York Times MB1

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