How to format your references using the Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 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

M. Yarborough, Openness in science is key to keeping public trust, Nature, 2014, 515, 313.

A journal article with 2 authors

G. Catalan and J. F. Scott, Magnetoelectrics: is CdCr2S4 a multiferroic relaxor?, Nature, 2007, 448, E4-5; discussion E5-6.

A journal article with 3 authors

J. Sharma, A. Angelucci and M. Sur, Induction of visual orientation modules in auditory cortex, Nature, 2000, 404, 841–847.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

B. Liu, J. Qu, W. Zhang, L. Tan and Y. Gao, Numerical evaluation of the scale problem on the wind flow of a windbreak, Sci. Rep., 2014, 4, 6619.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

A. Seabridge and S. Morgan, Air Travel and Health, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2010.

An edited book

M. Brokate, Measure and Integral, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Y. Güven and D. E. Barkana, in Intelligent Automation and Systems Engineering, eds. S.-I. Ao, M. Amouzegar and B. B. Rieger, Springer, New York, NY, 2011, pp. 41–52.

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 Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

Blog post

D. Andrew, Could We Upload A Brain To A Computer – And Should We Even Try?, (accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office, Competition: Issues on Establishing and Using Federally Funded Research and Development Centers, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

L. O’Neal, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 2016.

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

P. Baker, New York Times, 2017, BR11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Abbreviation	Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.
ISSN (print)	1463-9076
ISSN (online)	1463-9084
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry General Physics and Astronomy