How to format your references using the Letters in Mathematical Physics citation style

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

Kandel, E.R.: The molecular biology of memory storage: a dialogue between genes and synapses. Science. 294, 1030–1038 (2001)

A journal article with 2 authors

Eaton, D.W., Frederiksen, A.: Seismic evidence for convection-driven motion of the North American plate. Nature. 446, 428–431 (2007)

A journal article with 3 authors

Guo, D., Knight, T.E., McCusker, J.K.: Angular momentum conservation in dipolar energy transfer. Science. 334, 1684–1687 (2011)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pelejero, C., Calvo, E., McCulloch, M.T., Marshall, J.F., Gagan, M.K., Lough, J.M., Opdyke, B.N.: Preindustrial to modern interdecadal variability in coral reef pH. Science. 309, 2204–2207 (2005)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simon, J.: Banach, Fréchet, Hilbert and Neumann Spaces. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2017)

An edited book

McAlpine, S.R., Edkins, A.L. eds: Heat Shock Protein Inhibitors: Success Stories. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Terrill, A.L., Garofalo, J.P.: Cardiovascular Disease and the Workplace. In: Gatchel, R.J. and Schultz, I.Z. (eds.) Handbook of Occupational Health and Wellness. pp. 87–103. Springer US, Boston, MA (2012)

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 Letters in Mathematical Physics.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Hubble In Pictures: Astronomers’ Top Picks, https://www.iflscience.com/space/hubble-pictures-astronomers-top-picks/

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 Research Grants: Maintaining Public Accountability Without Inhibiting Creative Research. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1979)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Schluter, K.T.: Hearing words without structure: Subliminal speech priming and the organization of the Moroccan Arabic lexicon, (2013)

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

Kenigsberg, B.: Hissein Habré, A Chadian Tragedy, (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	Letters in Mathematical Physics
Abbreviation	Lett. Math. Phys.
ISSN (print)	0377-9017
ISSN (online)	1573-0530
Scope	Mathematical Physics Statistical and Nonlinear Physics