How to format your references using the Physical Communication citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Physical Communication. 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]

D. Frenkel, Materials science. Colloidal encounters: a matter of attraction, Science 314 (2006) 768–769.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Fromherz, M. Voelker, Comment on “Detection, stimulation, and inhibition of neuronal signals with high-density nanowire transistor arrays,” Science 323 (2009) 1429; author reply 1429.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Ishishita, Y. Matsuda, K. Kitada, Genetic evidence suggests that Spata22 is required for the maintenance of Rad51 foci in mammalian meiosis, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6148.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Li, B.E. Bursten, B. Liang, L. Andrews, Noble gas-actinide compounds: complexation of the CUO molecule by Ar, Kr, and Xe atoms in noble gas matrices, Science 295 (2002) 2242–2245.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. Maillard, Competitive Quality Strategies, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

W. Yu, H. He, N. Zhang, eds., Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2009: 6th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2009 Wuhan, China, May 26-29, 2009 Proceedings, Part II, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H.F. Schweiger, G. Peschl, Basic Concepts and Applications of Random Sets in Geotechnical Engineering, in: D.V. Griffiths, G.A. Fenton (Eds.), Probabilistic Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, Springer, Vienna, 2007: pp. 113–126.

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 Communication.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Child Receives Double Hand Transplant, 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, NASA ADP Systems: Information on the Automated Mission and Payload Tracking System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. Jalali Farahani, Adaptive Digital Calibration Techniques for High Speed, High Resolution Sigma Delta ADCs for Broadband Wireless Applications, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2005.

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. Crow, Snug as a Dog in a Baby Carrier Is the Latest Refrain for Pet Lovers, New York Times (2000) 145.

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	Physical Communication
ISSN (print)	1874-4907
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering