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]

Rosenzweig AC. Biochemistry: Breaking methane. Nature. 2015;518(7539):309–310.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kaufman YJ, Koren I. Smoke and pollution aerosol effect on cloud cover. Science. 2006;313(5787):655–658.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Zhao J, Murray S, Lipuma JJ. Modeling the impact of antibiotic exposure on human microbiota. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4345.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Alencar AM, Arold SP, Buldyrev SV, et al. Physiology: Dynamic instabilities in the inflating lung. Nature. 2002;417(6891):809–811.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Flood BG. Wealth Exposed. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Ramos A, editor. Electrokinetics and Electrohydrodynamics in Microsystems. Vienna: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ni W, Huang Y, Li D, et al. Boosting over Groups and Its Application to Acronym-Expansion Extraction. In: Tang C, Ling CX, Zhou X, et al., editors. Advanced Data Mining and Applications: 4th International Conference, ADMA 2008, Chengdu, China, October 8-10, 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 27–38.

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]

Carpineti A. How Phobos Got Its Giant Crater [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-phobos-got-its-giant-crater/.

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. Issues Concerning the National Materials Policy, Research and Development Act of 1980, Public Law 96-479. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983. Report No.: 121374. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Mersch C. Campus-based drunk-driving intervention program: A grant proposal project [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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]

Novick SM. Prepared Foods With Panache. New York Times. 2015 Oct 18;LI9.

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