How to format your references using the Low Temperature Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Low Temperature 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 M.P. Harmer, “Materials science. The phase behavior of interfaces,” Science 332(6026), 182–183 (2011).

A journal article with 2 authors

¹ C.H. Christensen, and J.K. Nørskov, “Chemistry. Green gold catalysis,” Science 327(5963), 278–279 (2010).

A journal article with 3 authors

¹ R.E. Tarlinton, J. Meers, and P.R. Young, “Retroviral invasion of the koala genome,” Nature 442(7098), 79–81 (2006).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

¹ R.D. Reed, R. Papa, A. Martin, H.M. Hines, B.A. Counterman, C. Pardo-Diaz, C.D. Jiggins, N.L. Chamberlain, M.R. Kronforst, R. Chen, G. Halder, H.F. Nijhout, and W.O. McMillan, “optix drives the repeated convergent evolution of butterfly wing pattern mimicry,” Science 333(6046), 1137–1141 (2011).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

¹ J.D. Niles, Old English Literature (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016).

An edited book

¹ V.Y. Eiderman, and M.V. Samokhin, editors , Selected Topics in Complex Analysis: The S. Ya. Khavinson Memorial Volume (Birkhäuser, Basel, 2005).

A chapter in an edited book

¹ D. Barro, E. Canestrelli, and P. Ciurlia, in Mathematical and Statistical Methods in Insurance and Finance, edited by C. Perna and M. Sibillo (Springer, Milano, 2008), pp. 27–34.

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 Low Temperature Physics.

Blog post

¹ J. Davis, “Very Hot Drinks ‘Probably’ Cause Cancer, Says The World Health Organization,” IFLScience, (2016).

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, Pipeline Safety:Collecting Data and Sharing Information on Federally Unregulated Gathering Pipelines Could Help Enhance Safety (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2012).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

¹ E.M. Schewe, Re-Establishing Connections: Listening to Women Psychology Students Talk about Recovery, Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2016.

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 J. Otis, “Competing for Glory, and Support,” New York Times, B10 (2017).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Low Temperature Physics
Abbreviation	Low Temp. Phys.
ISSN (print)	1063-777X
ISSN (online)	1090-6517
Scope	General Physics and Astronomy Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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