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]

K. Powell, The staff dreams are made of, Nature 435 (2005) 242–243.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Wang, A.Z. Genack, Transport through modes in random media, Nature 471 (2011) 345–348.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.N. Melchor, R. Buchwaldt, S. Bowring, A Late Eocene date for Late Triassic bird tracks, Nature 495 (2013) E1-2.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.E. Mann, Z. Zhang, S. Rutherford, R.S. Bradley, M.K. Hughes, D. Shindell, C. Ammann, G. Faluvegi, F. Ni, Global signatures and dynamical origins of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomaly, Science 326 (2009) 1256–1260.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C.J. Ko, R.J. Barr, Dermatopathology, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

T. Stober, Agile Software Development: Best Practices for Large Software Development Projects, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Hertel, C. Leuschner, M. Harteveld, M. Wiens, Fine root mass, distribution and regeneration in disturbed primary forests and secondary forests of the moist tropics, in: T. Tscharntke, C. Leuschner, M. Zeller, E. Guhardja, A. Bidin (Eds.), Stability of Tropical Rainforest Margins: Linking Ecological, Economic and Social Constraints of Land Use and Conservation, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007: pp. 87–106.

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]

R. Andrews, US Google Searches For “Climate Change” And “Paris Agreement” Spiked Only This Month, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/us-google-searches-climate-change-paris-agreement-spiked-only-this-month/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, National Transportation Safety Board: Weak Internal Control Impaired Financial Accountability, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.S. Johnston, Echo in Three Acts: The Lost Historical Subject in (Dis)articulation, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 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]

B. Protess, A. Stevenson, For Using Jobs to Entice China’s Elite, Chase Agrees to Pay a $264 Million Penalty, New York Times (2016) B1.

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