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]

Harvey C F 2002 Groundwater flow in the Ganges Delta Science 296 1563

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Dziak R P and Johnson H P 2002 Hydrothermal systems. Stirring the oceanic incubator Science 296 1406–7

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gagné J-P, Rouleau M and Poirier G G 2012 Structural biology. PARP-1 activation--bringing the pieces together Science 336 678–9

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Simons M, Minson S E, Sladen A, Ortega F, Jiang J, Owen S E, Meng L, Ampuero J-P, Wei S, Chu R, Helmberger D V, Kanamori H, Hetland E, Moore A W and Webb F H 2011 The 2011 magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake: mosaicking the megathrust from seconds to centuries Science 332 1421–5

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Taylor R 2006 Handbook of Retinal Screening in Diabetes (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Iuliano E and Pérez E A 2016 Application of Surrogate-based Global Optimization to Aerodynamic Design (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Koplin R S, Wu E I, Ritterband D C and Seedor J A 2013 Infection Control The Scrub’s Bible: How to Assist at Cataract and Corneal Surgery with a Primer on the Anatomy of the Human Eye and Self Assessment ed E I Wu, D C Ritterband and J A Seedor (New York, NY: Springer) pp 25–9

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]

Andrew D 2016 Freaks And Uniques: Evolution’s Weirdest Creatures 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 1992 Airport Development: Improvement Needed in Federal Planning (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]

Kane B H 2017 A Qualitative Exploratory Inquiry of Communicating in a Multigenerational Traditional-Rational Organization Doctoral dissertation (Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix)

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]

Gelles D and de la MERCED M J 2017 Staples to Sell for $6.9 Billion, and Its New Owner Has an Uphill Battle New York Times B1

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