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]

J.W. Roberts, Molecular biology. Molecular basis of transcription pausing, Science. 344 (2014) 1226–1227.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P.C. Thomas, M.S. Robinson, Seismic resurfacing by a single impact on the asteroid 433 Eros, Nature. 436 (2005) 366–369.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.R. Schmidt, H. Dörfelt, V. Perrichot, Carnivorous fungi from Cretaceous amber, Science. 318 (2007) 1743.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Lind, P. Lindenfors, S. Ghirlanda, K. Lidén, M. Enquist, Dating human cultural capacity using phylogenetic principles, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1785.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Yevick, H. Yevick, Fundamental Math and Physics for Scientists and Engineers, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

T. Jue, K. Masuda, eds., Application of Near Infrared Spectroscopy in Biomedicine, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A.V. Sykes, N. Koueta, C. Rosas, Historical Review of Cephalopods Culture, in: J. Iglesias, L. Fuentes, R. Villanueva (Eds.), Cephalopod Culture, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014: pp. 59–75.

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]

R. Andrews, Nat Geo’s Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 Contest Winners Capture Breathtaking Images Of Our World, IFLScience. (2016).

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, Commuter Rail: Potential Impacts and Cost Estimates for the Cancelled Hudson River Tunnel Project, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

P. Chepete, Modeling of the factors affecting mathematical achievement of Form 1 students in Botswana based on the 2003 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 2008.

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]

S.K. (nyt), World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Referendum In Chechnya, New York Times. (2002) A8.

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