How to format your references using the Physica B: Physics of Condensed Matter citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Physica B: Physics of Condensed Matter. 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 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]

H.H. Thorp, CHEMISTRY: Harnessing the Power of Diatomics, Science 289 (2000) 882–883.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. Dye, B.G. Williams, The population dynamics and control of tuberculosis, Science 328 (2010) 856–861.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C.R. McHenry, A.G. Cook, S. Wroe, Bottom-feeding plesiosaurs, Science 310 (2005) 75.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

F. Schnorrer, C. Schönbauer, C.C.H. Langer, G. Dietzl, M. Novatchkova, K. Schernhuber, M. Fellner, A. Azaryan, M. Radolf, A. Stark, K. Keleman, B.J. Dickson, Systematic genetic analysis of muscle morphogenesis and function in Drosophila, Nature 464 (2010) 287–291.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E. Nappi, V. Peskov, Imaging Gaseous Detectors and Their Applications, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

M. Xie, Y. Xiong, C. Xiong, H. Liu, Z. Hu, eds., Intelligent Robotics and Applications: Second International Conference, ICIRA 2009, Singapore, December 16-18, 2009. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Y. Shindo, T. Takeda, F. Narita, Interlaminar Delamination Fracture and Fatigue of Woven Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite Laminates at Cryogenic Temperatures, in: S. Kalia, S.-Y. Fu (Eds.), Polymers at Cryogenic Temperatures, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 115–125.

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 Physica B: Physics of Condensed Matter.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Does Fracking Cause Cancer And Infertility?, IFLScience (2015).

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, The Army’s Risk Assessment of Chemical Munitions Transportation, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.E. Crosby, A phenomenological heuristic study of psychosocial factors that contribute to African American females’ HIV seroconversion, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2012.

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]

C. Kelly, Elaborate Measures Try to Tame Turbulence, New York Times (2016) TR5.

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	Physica B: Physics of Condensed Matter
Abbreviation	Physica B Condens. Matter
ISSN (print)	0921-4526
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Condensed Matter Physics