How to format your references using the Phase Transitions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Phase Transitions. 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	Download the output style file
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]

McLean AR. Epidemiology. Coming to an airport near you. Science. 2013;342:1330–1331.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rappaport SM, Smith MT. Epidemiology. Environment and disease risks. Science. 2010;330:460–461.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Sack L, Marañón T, Grubb PJ. Global allocation rules for patterns of biomass partitioning. Science. 2002;296:1923.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Thompson K, Flaitz PL, Ronsheim P, et al. Imaging of arsenic Cottrell atmospheres around silicon defects by three-dimensional atom probe tomography. Science. 2007;317:1370–1374.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sillar KT, Picton LD, Heitler WJ. The Neuroethology of Predation and Escape. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Horvath J. The New Shop Class: Getting Started with 3D Printing, Arduino, and Wearable Tech. Cameron R, editor. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Yamada S, Tamura Y. Stochastic Differential Equation Models for OSS Reliability Analysis. In: Tamura Y, editor. OSS Reliability Measurement and Assessment. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 27–32.

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 Phase Transitions.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A. Meteorites Might Destroy Evidence Of Life On Mars [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/meteorites-might-destroy-evidence-of-life-on-mars/.

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. Educating People at Risk for AIDS. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988. Report No.: T-PEMD-88-8. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Jahan M. A policy to protect hoarders: An analysis of Fair Housing Amendments Act, 1988 [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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]

Billard M. Sky’s the Limit: Yogis Head Outdoors. New York Times. 2011 Jun 19;MB1.

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	Phase Transitions
Abbreviation	Phase Transitions
ISSN (print)	0141-1594
ISSN (online)	1029-0338
Scope	General Materials Science Instrumentation