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]

Barinaga M. SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY: Satisfaction Sans Status. Science. 2000;289(5487):2025.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Inoue J, Ohno H. Physics. Taking the hall effect for a spin. Science. 2005;309(5743):2004–2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gambetta MC, Oktaba K, Müller J. Essential role of the glycosyltransferase sxc/Ogt in polycomb repression. Science. 2009;325(5936):93–96.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Tang W, Zeve D, Suh JM, et al. White fat progenitor cells reside in the adipose vasculature. Science. 2008;322(5901):583–586.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Rezaee Z. Financial Services Firms. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Chadwick D, Zhao G, editors. Public Key Infrastructure: Second European PKI Workshop: Research and Applications, EuroPKI 2005, Canterbury, UK, June 30 - July 1, 2005, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lundström A, Zhou C. Rethinking Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprises: A Three-Dimensional Perspective. In: Lundström A, Zhou C, von Friedrichs Y, et al., editors. Social Entrepreneurship: Leveraging Economic, Political, and Cultural Dimensions. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 71–89.

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. Hubble Might Have Seen The Shadow Of A Planet Forming. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. ADP Equipment: Revised GSA Strategy for Microcomputer Purchases Can Improve Competition. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986. Report No.: IMTEC-86-20. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Sheppard KC. An Examination of School Choice Access, Opportunities, and Academic Outcomes in an Intra-District School Choice Program [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2017.

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. Pond or Rink, Rangers Create Their Own Winter Classic. New York Times. 2011 Jan 7;B15.

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