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]

Loder N 2000 Cambridge seeks Pound Sterling 1.6 million to buy Newton’s papers Nature 406 924

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Saavedra S and Stouffer D B 2013 “Disentangling nestedness” disentangled Nature 500 E1-2

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Janetopoulos C, Jin T and Devreotes P 2001 Receptor-mediated activation of heterotrimeric G-proteins in living cells Science 291 2408–11

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Schaub J R, Huppert K A, Kurial S N T, Hsu B Y, Cast A E, Donnelly B, Karns R A, Chen F, Rezvani M, Luu H Y, Mattis A N, Rougemont A-L, Rosenthal P, Huppert S S and Willenbring H 2018 De novo formation of the biliary system by TGFβ-mediated hepatocyte transdifferentiation Nature 557 247–51

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Davino C, Furno M and Vistocco D 2014 Quantile Regression: Theory and Applications (Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Philipov D, Liefbroer A C and Klobas J E 2015 Reproductive Decision-Making in a Macro-Micro Perspective (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Chik D, Tripathi G N and Wagatsuma H 2013 A Method to Deal with Prospective Risks at Home in Robotic Observations by Using a Brain-Inspired Model Neural Information Processing: 20th International Conference, ICONIP 2013, Daegu, Korea, November 3-7, 2013. Proceedings, Part III Lecture Notes in Computer Science ed M Lee, A Hirose, Z-G Hou and R M Kil (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 33–40

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 E 2015 Here’s Why The Greenwich Prime Meridian Is Actually In The Wrong Place 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 Federal Autism Activities: Agencies Are Encouraging Early Identification and Providing Services, and Recent Actions Could Improve Coordination (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]

Alaiyegbami A O 2014 Porescale Investigation of Gas Shales Reservoir Description by Comparing the Barnett, Mancos, and Marcellus Formation 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 2001 Need Milk? Too Bad. Maybe a Thong? New York Times 146

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