How to format your references using the Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics. 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]

C. Thomas, Cardiovascular biology, Nature 473 (2011) 297.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.L. Rauch, W.A. Carlezon Jr, Neuroscience. Illuminating the neural circuitry of compulsive behaviors, Science 340 (2013) 1174–1175.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.R. Zerbino, B. Paten, D. Haussler, Integrating genomes, Science 336 (2012) 179–182.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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T. Ishikawa, M.R. Maurizi, D. Belnap, A.C. Steven, Docking of components in a bacterial complex, Nature 408 (2000) 667–668.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Nations, The Complete Book of Option Spreads and Combinations, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

F. Eliassen, R. Kapitza, eds., Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems: 10th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, DAIS 2010, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 7-9, 2010. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M.R. Britto, N. Sarapa, Clinical QTc Assessment in Oncology, in: P.L. Bonate, D.R. Howard (Eds.), Pharmacokinetics in Drug Development: Problems and Challenges in Oncology, Volume 4, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 77–106.

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 Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics.

Blog post

[1]

C. Carpineti, This Breathtaking Bioluminescent Beach Will Make Your Day, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/this-breathtaking-bioluminescent-beach-will-make-your-day/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, Chemical Assessments: EPA’s New Assessment Process Will Further Limit the Productivity and Credibility of Its Integrated Risk Information System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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A.R. Royalty, U.S. Military Advisors in Iraq: A Phenomenological Research Study on the Role of National Culture on Tactical Decision-making during Wartime, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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]

A.L. Baker, Push to Rid City of Classrooms That Are Anything but Temporary, New York Times (2014) A18.

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	Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
Abbreviation	Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys.
ISSN (print)	0146-6410
Scope	Nuclear and High Energy Physics