How to format your references using the New Journal of Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for New Journal of 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]

Szidat S 2009 Atmosphere. Sources of Asian haze Science 323 470–1

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kourtzi Z and Kanwisher N 2001 Representation of perceived object shape by the human lateral occipital complex Science 293 1506–9

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Galbraith C G, Yamada K M and Galbraith J A 2007 Polymerizing actin fibers position integrins primed to probe for adhesion sites Science 315 992–5

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Bennett J T, Stickney H L, Choi W-Y, Ciruna B, Talbot W S and Schier A F 2007 Maternal nodal and zebrafish embryogenesis Nature 450 E1-2; discussion E2-4

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Mitra A 2008 Fundamentals of Quality Control and Improvement (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Bellucci S 2013 Geometrical Methods for Power Network Analysis ed B N Tiwari and N Gupta (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Edwards P G 2005 An Examination of Candidate AGN Counterparts to Unidentified EGRET Sources Multiwavelength Approach to Unidentified Gamma-Ray Sources: A Second Workshop on the Nature of the High-Energy Unidentified Sources ed K S Cheng and G E Romero (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands) pp 31–41

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 New Journal of Physics.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E 2015 Elon Musk Biography Portrays A Brutal Character Driven By Lofty Dreams 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 2004 Commercial Aviation: Legacy Airlines Must Further Reduce Costs to Restore Profitability (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]

Adaligil E 2010 Electron transfer through self-assembled monolayers of alkaneselenols and alkanethiols on mercury electrode Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach)

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 2011 Welcoming Back N.B.A. With Open Yawns New York Times B16

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	New Journal of Physics
Abbreviation	New J. Phys.
ISSN (online)	1367-2630
Scope	General Physics and Astronomy