How to format your references using the Laser Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Laser 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

[1]

Kendall K 2000 Hydrocarbon fuels. Hopes for a flame-free future Nature 404 233, 235

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Schmitz L and Motani R 2011 Nocturnality in dinosaurs inferred from scleral ring and orbit morphology Science 332 705–8

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tomioka K, Yoshimura M and Fukui T 2012 A III-V nanowire channel on silicon for high-performance vertical transistors Nature 488 189–92

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Brazma A, Robinson A, Cameron G and Ashburner M 2000 One-stop shop for microarray data Nature 403 699–700

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Omura Y, Mallik A and Matsuo N 2016 MOS Devices for Low-Voltage and Low-Energy Applications (Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Backert S 2016 Inflammasome Signaling and Bacterial Infections vol 397 (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Wu C and Castell M R 2016 Ultrathin Oxide Films on Au(111) Substrates Oxide Materials at the Two-Dimensional Limit Springer Series in Materials Science ed F P Netzer and A Fortunelli (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 149–68

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 Laser Physics.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K 2016 World’s Oldest Muscle-Fibre Fossil Reveals The Origin Of Legs 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 2016 Intelligent Transportation Systems: Urban and Rural Transit Providers Reported Benefits but Face Deployment Challenges (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]

Krug K A 2009 Critical literacy in the face of a mandated curriculum: Can children read beyond the text? Doctoral dissertation (Washington, DC: George Washington University)

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]

Vecsey G 2010 Waiting To Discover If Water Still Flows New York Times B17

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	Laser Physics
Abbreviation	Laser Phys.
ISSN (print)	1054-660X
ISSN (online)	1555-6611
Scope	Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Condensed Matter Physics Instrumentation Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics