How to format your references using the Physica C: Superconductivity and its applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Physica C: Superconductivity and its applications. 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]

M. Albrecht, Chemistry. Carbenes in action, Science 326 (2009) 532–533.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E. Sahin, R.A. Depinho, Linking functional decline of telomeres, mitochondria and stem cells during ageing, Nature 464 (2010) 520–528.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Walker, R.A. Cliff, A.G. Latham, U-Pb isotopic age of the StW 573 hominid from Sterkfontein, South Africa, Science 314 (2006) 1592–1594.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A.M. Wilbanks, G.B. Fralish, M.L. Kirby, L.S. Barak, Y.-X. Li, M.G. Caron, Beta-arrestin 2 regulates zebrafish development through the hedgehog signaling pathway, Science 306 (2004) 2264–2267.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. Kivy, Once-Told Tales, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

C. Gonzalez, C.A. Nurse, C. Peers, eds., Arterial Chemoreceptors: Arterial Chemoreceptors, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E.T. Burriss, G. Alici, G.M. Spinks, S. McGovern, Modelling and Performance Enhancement of a Linear Actuation Mechanism Using Conducting Polymers, in: J.A. Cetto, J. Filipe, J.-L. Ferrier (Eds.), Informatics in Control Automation and Robotics: Revised and Selected Papers from the International Conference on Informatics in Control Automation and Robotics 2009, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 63–78.

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 C: Superconductivity and its applications.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Couple Found Holding Hands For 700 Years, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/couple-found-holding-hands-700-years/ (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, Air Traffic Control: Challenges Facing FAA’s Modernization Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.M. Saperstein, Susceptibility to smoking and nicotine dependence in schizophrenia, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.

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]

K. Couturier, The Nine and a Half Months That Shook Fox News, New York Times (2017) B6.

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 C: Superconductivity and its applications
Abbreviation	Physica C Supercond.
ISSN (print)	0921-4534
Scope	Energy Engineering and Power Technology Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Condensed Matter Physics