How to format your references using the Physical Review Accelerators and Beams citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Physical Review Accelerators and Beams. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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]

C. Macilwain, World view: Calling science to account, Nature 463, 875 (2010).

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. T. Abraham and R. S. Tibbetts, Cell biology. Guiding ATM to broken DNA, Science 308, 510 (2005).

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N. I. Storch, K. R. Anderson, and D. Lai, Chaotic dynamics of stellar spin in binaries and the production of misaligned hot Jupiters, Science 345, 1317 (2014).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. Michler, A. Kiraz, C. Becher, W. V. Schoenfeld, P. M. Petroff, L. Zhang, E. Hu, and A. Imamoglu, A quantum dot single-photon turnstile device, Science 290, 2282 (2000).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. C. Das, Power System Harmonics and Passive Filter Designs (John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015).

An edited book

[1]

M. Kreuzer, Computational Linear and Commutative Algebra (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016).

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Chaudhuri and U. Mukhopadhyay, FDI and Relative Wage Inequality, in Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries: A Theoretical Evaluation, edited by U. Mukhopadhyay (Springer India, New Delhi, 2014), pp. 101–137.

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 Review Accelerators and Beams.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, Scientists To Hunt For Planets In Our Nearest Star System With Funding For New Instrument, https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-to-hunt-for-planets-in-our-nearest-star-system-with-funding-for-new-instrument/.

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 Chief Information Officer: Opportunities to Strengthen Information Resources Management, No. AIMD-96-78, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. A. Grant, Far-Field Noise from a Rotor in a Wind Tunnel, Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, 2015.

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]

M. M. Grynbaum, Lead Story, New York Times ST1 (2017).

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 Review Accelerators and Beams
ISSN (online)	2469-9888
Scope