How to format your references using the Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism. 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

Davis, R.J.: Chemistry. All that glitters is not Au0. Science. 301, 926–927 (2003)

A journal article with 2 authors

Huynh, K.D., Lee, J.T.: Inheritance of a pre-inactivated paternal X chromosome in early mouse embryos. Nature. 426, 857–862 (2003)

A journal article with 3 authors

Blum, R., Kafitz, K.W., Konnerth, A.: Neurotrophin-evoked depolarization requires the sodium channel Na(V)1.9. Nature. 419, 687–693 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Barthelemy, M., Bordin, P., Berestycki, H., Gribaudi, M.: Self-organization versus top-down planning in the evolution of a city. Sci. Rep. 3, 2153 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Held, G.: Bulletproofing TCP/IP-based Windows NT/2000 Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2001)

An edited book

van der Ark, L.A., Bolt, D.M., Wang, W.-C., Douglas, J.A., Chow, S.-M. eds: Quantitative Psychology Research: The 79th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Madison, Wisconsin, 2014. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Saguna, Zaslavsky, A., Chakraborty, D.: CrysP: Multi-Faceted Activity-Infused Presence in Emerging Social Networks. In: Balandin, S., Dunaytsev, R., and Koucheryavy, Y. (eds.) Smart Spaces and Next Generation Wired/Wireless Networking: Third Conference on Smart Spaces, ruSMART 2010, and 10th International Conference, NEW2AN 2010, St. Petersburg, Russia, August 23-25, 2010. Proceedings. pp. 50–61. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2010)

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 Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism.

Blog post

Andrews, R.: New Zealand’s 7.8M Earthquake Really Messed Up The Environment, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/new-zealands-78m-earthquake-really-messed-up-the-environment/

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: Federal Communications Commission: Broadcast Services, Television Broadcast Stations, and TV Transmission Standards. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1997)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sato, O.: The use of statistical metrics as a decision making tool in brief experimental analysis, (2010)

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

Rothenberg, B.: Kvitova Keeps Expectations Low, Even if Oddsmakers Disagree, (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 Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism
Abbreviation	J. Supercond. Nov. Magn.
ISSN (print)	1557-1939
ISSN (online)	1557-1947
Scope	Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Condensed Matter Physics