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

Bindschadler, R.: Climate change. Hitting the ice sheets where it hurts. Science. 311, 1720–1721 (2006)

A journal article with 2 authors

Golz, J., MacLeod, D.I.A.: Influence of scene statistics on colour constancy. Nature. 415, 637–640 (2002)

A journal article with 3 authors

Ranganathan, R., Cannon, S.C., Horvitz, H.R.: MOD-1 is a serotonin-gated chloride channel that modulates locomotory behaviour in C. elegans. Nature. 408, 470–475 (2000)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Knutti, R., Flückiger, J., Stocker, T.F., Timmermann, A.: Strong hemispheric coupling of glacial climate through freshwater discharge and ocean circulation. Nature. 430, 851–856 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kirsh, S.J.: Media and Youth. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK (2009)

An edited book

Jann, M.W., Penzak, S.R., Cohen, L.J. eds: Applied Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Psychopharmacological Agents. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Kuroki, Y., Uraoka, T., Wolkersdörfer, G.W.: High-Resolution Endoscopic Ultrasound: Clinical T-Staging of Mucosal Neoplasms. In: Berr, F., Oyama, T., Ponchon, T., and Yahagi, N. (eds.) Early Neoplasias of the Gastrointestinal Tract: Endoscopic Diagnosis and Therapeutic Decisions. pp. 71–82. Springer US, Boston, MA (2014)

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

Luntz, S.: Amazing Video Shows What LA’s Night Skies Would Look Like Without Pollution

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: ADP Modernization: IRS’ Tax System Redesign Progress and Plans for the Future. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1988)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Littlefield, S.: Application of Discrete Event Simulation to Modeling Reliability of Highly Parallel Systems with Common Cause Failures, (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

Wilson, M.: From Fortunetelling to a Forgery Accusation, the Tale of a Psychic’s Arrest, (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

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