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]

Colman S M 2002 Paleoclimate. A fresh look at glacial floods Science 296 1251–2

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wu Z and Curtin W A 2015 The origins of high hardening and low ductility in magnesium Nature 526 62–7

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Groisman A, Enzelberger M and Quake S R 2003 Microfluidic memory and control devices Science 300 955–8

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Saal A E, Hauri E H, Cascio M L, Van Orman J A, Rutherford M C and Cooper R F 2008 Volatile content of lunar volcanic glasses and the presence of water in the Moon’s interior Nature 454 192–5

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Fayngold M 2005 Special Relativity and Motions Faster than Light (Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA)

An edited book

[1]

Hariharan M V 2016 Modular Load Flow for Restructured Power Systems vol 374, ed S D Varwandkar and P P Gupta (Singapore: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hansen A, Hees F and Richert A 2014 Kreativität mit System – Innovationsmanagement strategisch umsetzen Automation, Communication and Cybernetics in Science and Engineering 2013/2014 ed S Jeschke, I Isenhardt, F Hees and K Henning (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 45–50

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]

Fang J 2015 Women In Beijing Delivered Larger Babies When Air Was Cleaner 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 Data Mining: Federal Efforts Cover a Wide Range of Uses (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]

Bono S 2013 Perceptions of Psychological Abuse and the Impact of Blame and Gender Role Beliefs Doctoral dissertation (Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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]

Eligon J and Bosman J 2017 Kansas Governor’s Tenure May Serve as a Warning for Conservatives New York Times A12

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