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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

Holmes E C 2010 Virology. Helping the resistance Science 328 1243–4

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gillespie R G and Roderick G K 2014 Evolution: Geology and climate drive diversification Nature 509 297–8

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Cosgaya J M, Chan J R and Shooter E M 2002 The neurotrophin receptor p75NTR as a positive modulator of myelination Science 298 1245–8

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Moraes C B, Giardini M A, Kim H, Franco C H, Araujo-Junior A M, Schenkman S, Chatelain E and Freitas-Junior L H 2014 Nitroheterocyclic compounds are more efficacious than CYP51 inhibitors against Trypanosoma cruzi: implications for Chagas disease drug discovery and development Sci. Rep. 4 4703

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Delgrossi L and Zhang T 2012 Vehicle Safety Communications (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Mangard S 2013 Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications: 11th International Conference, CARDIS 2012, Graz, Austria, November 28-30, 2012, Revised Selected Papers vol 7771 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sierksma G and Ghosh D 2010 Minimum Spanning Trees Networks in Action: Text and Computer Exercises in Network Optimization International Series in Operations Research & Management Science ed D Ghosh (Boston, MA: Springer US) pp 37–60

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]

Carpineti A 2017 Has Metallic Hydrogen Been Achieved For The First Time? 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 1991 GAO Research Guide: Computers and Information Technology Issues (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]

Das A 2013 Optimizing symbol timing, frequency spacing, and SNR estimation for communication systems Doctoral dissertation (La Jolla, CA: University of California San Diego)

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]

Perlroth N, Wines M and Rosenberg M 2017 Little Effort to Investigate in States Targeted by Election Hacking New York Times A1

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