How to format your references using the JPhys Complexity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for JPhys Complexity. 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]

Hoag H 2003 Atlantic cod meet icy death Nature 422 792

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Queller D C and Strassmann J E 2002 The many selves of social insects Science 296 311–3

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Barkeshli M, Berg E and Kivelson S 2014 Coherent transmutation of electrons into fractionalized anyons Science 346 722–5

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Maragliano C, Lilliu S, Dahlem M S, Chiesa M, Souier T and Stefancich M 2014 Quantifying charge carrier concentration in ZnO thin films by Scanning Kelvin Probe Microscopy Sci. Rep. 4 4203

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bock R 2005 Handbuch der analytisch-chemischen Aufschlussmethoden (Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA)

An edited book

[1]

Xu K 2014 Internet Resource Pricing Models ed Y Zhong and H He (New York, NY: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Neelameggham N R and Davis B R 2016 Thermal Wastes from Energy Conversions and Global Anthropogenic Warming Energy Technology 2015: Carbon Dioxide Management and Other Technologies ed A Jha, C Wang, N R Neelameggham, D P Guillen, L Li, C K Belt, R Kirchain, J S Spangenberger, F Johnson, A J Gomes, A Pandey and P Hosemann (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 29–35

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 JPhys Complexity.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T 2016 Beautiful And Terrifying Time-Lapse Shows Antibiotic Resistance In Action 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office 2003 Telecommunications: FCC Should Include Call Quality in Its Annual Report on Competition in Mobile Phone Services (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

[1]

Duggimpudi M B 2017 Object Ranking Algorithms for Improved Decision Making Doctoral dissertation ( Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana)

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]

Crow K 2000 Midnight at the Oasis, as Restaurant’s Lease Is Withdrawn New York Times 147

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	JPhys Complexity
ISSN (online)	2632-072X
Scope