How to format your references using the Physics and Chemistry of Liquids citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Physics and Chemistry of Liquids. 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]

Gille ST. Warming of the Southern Ocean since the 1950s. Science. 2002;295(5558):1275–1277.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Vogel EK, Machizawa MG. Neural activity predicts individual differences in visual working memory capacity. Nature. 2004;428(6984):748–751.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Barrett RDH, Rogers SM, Schluter D. Natural selection on a major armor gene in threespine stickleback. Science. 2008;322(5899):255–257.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Pascal JM, O’Brien PJ, Tomkinson AE, et al. Human DNA ligase I completely encircles and partially unwinds nicked DNA. Nature. 2004;432(7016):473–478.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Goldstein LSB, Schneider M. Stem Cells for Dummies®. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Ramsay J. Functional Data Analysis with R and MATLAB. Hooker G, Graves S, editors. New York, NY: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Henne B, Kater C, Smith M. On Usable Location Privacy for Android with Crowd-Recommendations. In: Holz T, Ioannidis S, editors. Trust and Trustworthy Computing: 7th International Conference, TRUST 2014, Heraklion, Crete, June 30 – July 2, 2014 Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 74–82.

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 Physics and Chemistry of Liquids.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. New Anti-Prion Compound Provides New Hope For Treating Brain-Wasting Disease. IFLScience. 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. Involvement of the Office of Education, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, in the Development of an Information System Called the College Suggestor. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1971. Report No.: B-164031(1). .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Loretz N. Human trafficking: Identification, education, and awareness: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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]

Walsh MW. Treasury Dept. Rejects Plan to Cut Benefits for Teamsters. New York Times. 2016 May 7;B1.

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	Physics and Chemistry of Liquids
Abbreviation	Phys. Chem. Liquids
ISSN (print)	0031-9104
ISSN (online)	1029-0451
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Materials Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics