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]

Baveye P. To create generalists, teach students how to learn by themselves. Nature. 2000;404:329.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Geschwind DH, Konopka G. Neuroscience in the era of functional genomics and systems biology. Nature. 2009;461:908–915.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Nagao K, Adachi Y, Yanagida M. Separase-mediated cleavage of cohesin at interphase is required for DNA repair. Nature. 2004;430:1044–1048.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Cordenonsi M, Montagner M, Adorno M, et al. Integration of TGF-beta and Ras/MAPK signaling through p53 phosphorylation. Science. 2007;315:840–843.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ahmad SR, Cartwright M. Laser Ignition of Energetic Materials. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Petsche H-J, Keßler G, Kannenberg L, et al., editors. Hermann Graßmann Roots and Traces: Autographs and Unknown Documents. Basel: Birkhäuser; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Miatton M, Sarrechia I. Neurological and Psychosocial Development in Adolescence. In: Schwerzmann M, Thomet C, Moons P, editors. Congenital Heart Disease and Adolescence. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 61–82.

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 D. Now For Some Good News: Regular Sex Benefits Your Mental Health, Too. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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 Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992. Report No.: OCG-93-27TR. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Medlej M. Assessing the Probability of Prototyping Success in Systems Acquisitions (APOPS) [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington 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]

Marx L. The Gown Is Free, the Salute Heartfelt. New York Times. 2015 Nov 8;ST23.

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