How to format your references using the Journal of Statistical Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Statistical Physics. 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

Herculano-Houzel, S.: Neuroscience. Sleep it out. Science. 342, 316–317 (2013)

A journal article with 2 authors

Allcott, H., Mullainathan, S.: Energy. Behavior and energy policy. Science. 327, 1204–1205 (2010)

A journal article with 3 authors

Acar, M., Becskei, A., van Oudenaarden, A.: Enhancement of cellular memory by reducing stochastic transitions. Nature. 435, 228–232 (2005)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Han, D., Qi, X., Myhrvold, C., Wang, B., Dai, M., Jiang, S., Bates, M., Liu, Y., An, B., Zhang, F., Yan, H., Yin, P.: Single-stranded DNA and RNA origami. Science. 358, (2017)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Padgett, S.: Profiling the Fraudster. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ (2014)

An edited book

Asson-Batres, M.A., Rochette-Egly, C. eds: The Biochemistry of Retinoic Acid Receptors I: Structure, Activation, and Function at the Molecular Level. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Curtiss, L.A., Zapoll, P., Sternberg, M., Redfernm, P.C., Horner, D.A., Gruen, D.M.: Quantum Chemical Studies of Growth Mechanisms of Ultrananocrystalline Diamond. In: Gruen, D.M., Shenderova, O.A., and Vul’, A.Y. (eds.) Synthesis, Properties and Applications of Ultrananocrystalline Diamond: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Synthesis, Properties and Applications of Ultrananocrystalline Diamond St. Petersburg, Russia 7–10 June 2004. pp. 39–48. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2005)

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 Physics.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Exactly How Big Is Pluto?

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: Guaranteed Student Loans: Legislative and Regulatory Changes Needed To Reduce Default Costs. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1987)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Beck, J.: An Inquiry into Theory Use in HCI Research, (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

Turkewitz, J., Fernandez, M., Blinder, A.: Deadly Storm Transforms Houston Streets Into Raging Rivers, (2017)

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 Physics
Abbreviation	J. Stat. Phys.
ISSN (print)	0022-4715
ISSN (online)	1572-9613
Scope	Mathematical Physics Statistical and Nonlinear Physics