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 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]

T. Vicsek, A question of scale, Nature 411 (2001) 421.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K.A. Paczolt, A.G. Jones, Post-copulatory sexual selection and sexual conflict in the evolution of male pregnancy, Nature 464 (2010) 401–404.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.-J. Yoon, S.K. Yi, Y.-W. Lee, Explaining the color distributions of globular cluster systems in elliptical galaxies, Science 311 (2006) 1129–1132.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Machacek, L. Hodgson, C. Welch, H. Elliott, O. Pertz, P. Nalbant, A. Abell, G.L. Johnson, K.M. Hahn, G. Danuser, Coordination of Rho GTPase activities during cell protrusion, Nature 461 (2009) 99–103.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.E. Ruehli, G. Antonini, L. Jiang, Circuit Oriented Electromagnetic Modeling Using the Peec Techniques, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

A. Chaudhuri, Quantitative Modeling of Operational Risk in Finance and Banking Using Possibility Theory, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V.T. Cotter, J. Teixeira, Early Stage Dementia: Maximizing Self-Direction and Health, in: M. Boltz, J.E. Galvin (Eds.), Dementia Care: An Evidence-Based Approach, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 61–70.

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, Biker Was IMPALED Through The Neck By A Tree Branch, And Just Cycled To The Nearest Hospital!, 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, Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority: Contracting Practices Do Not Always Comply with Airport Lease Requirements, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Dunbar, Sideshow: An alluring dichotomy of illusion and humanity, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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]

G. Loomis, Rossini and Contemporaries, Snuggly at Home in the Black Forest, New York Times (2012) 0.

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