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]

R. Jauch, Scientists and societies. Horizons in molecular biology, Nature. 433 (2005) 904.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. Bayley, P.S. Cremer, Stochastic sensors inspired by biology, Nature. 413 (2001) 226–230.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Agarwala, T.A. Sanders, C.W. Ragsdale, Sonic hedgehog control of size and shape in midbrain pattern formation, Science. 291 (2001) 2147–2150.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

E.E. Heldwein, H. Lou, F.C. Bender, G.H. Cohen, R.J. Eisenberg, S.C. Harrison, Crystal structure of glycoprotein B from herpes simplex virus 1, Science. 313 (2006) 217–220.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E. Böhmer, Dentistry in Rabbits and Rodents, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

C. Damböck, ed., Influences on the Aufbau, 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Pedreschi, F. Bonchi, F. Turini, V.S. Verykios, M. Atzori, B. Malin, B. Moelans, Y. Saygin, Privacy Protection: Regulations and Technologies, Opportunities and Threats, in: F. Giannotti, D. Pedreschi (Eds.), Mobility, Data Mining and Privacy: Geographic Knowledge Discovery, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 101–119.

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]

J. O`Callaghan, NASA Set To Make Huge Announcement On Thursday Regarding Mars’ Atmosphere, 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, General Government Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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N. Khojandi, Investigating Secondary Infections and their Impact on Host Fitness in the Dictyostelium-Burkholderia Symbiosis System, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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. Rothenberg, Halep, Resigned to Defeat, Finds Out It’s Not Over Till It’s Over, New York Times. (2017) B13.

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