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]

Goldston D 2007 Political climate Nature 450 333

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Swirski F K and Nahrendorf M 2013 Leukocyte behavior in atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction, and heart failure Science 339 161–6

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Dean R, Bonsall M B and Pizzari T 2007 Evolution. Aging and sexual conflict Science 316 383–4

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Smith G F, Steenkamp Y, Klopper R R, Siebert S J and Arnold T H 2003 The price of collecting life Nature 422 375–6

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Fiske J R and Fiske C A 2009 The Big Book of Benefit Auctions (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

He W 2014 Gas Transport in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells ed W Lv and J Dickerson (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Huang S 2008 Computational Complexity Traffic Grooming for Optical Networks: Foundations, Techniques, and Frontiers Optical Networks ed R Dutta, A E Kamal and G N Rouskas (Boston, MA: Springer US) pp 57–72

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]

Luntz S 2015 Climate Change Shortening Bees’ Tongues 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 Federal Aviation Administration: Plan Still Needed to Meet Challenges to Effectively Managing Air Traffic Controller Workforce (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]

Ionedes N J 2008 An exploration of social interest therapy as a treatment for depression in the elderly Doctoral dissertation (Minneapolis, MN: Capella University)

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]

Schmidt M S 2017 Officials Cancel Plans to Build New Headquarters for the F.B.I New York Times A16

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