How to format your references using the Quantum Information Processing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Quantum Information Processing. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Abbott, A.: Italians riled by science reforms. Nature. 421, 465 (2003)

A journal article with 2 authors

Thompson, J.N., Cunningham, B.M.: Geographic structure and dynamics of coevolutionary selection. Nature. 417, 735–738 (2002)

A journal article with 3 authors

Bhavsar, A.P., Guttman, J.A., Finlay, B.B.: Manipulation of host-cell pathways by bacterial pathogens. Nature. 449, 827–834 (2007)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vandenkoornhuyse, P., Baldauf, S.L., Leyval, C., Straczek, J., Young, J.P.W.: Extensive fungal diversity in plant roots. Science. 295, 2051 (2002)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matthews, C.: A Practical Guide to Engineering Failure Investigation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (1998)

An edited book

Ratto, C., Doglietto, G.B., Lowry, A.C., Påhlman, L., Romano, G. eds: Fecal Incontinence: Diagnosis and Treatment. Springer, Milano (2007)

A chapter in an edited book

Guedes, E.B., de Assis, F.M., Medeiros, R.A.C.: Zero-Error Capacity of Quantum Channels. In: de Assis, F.M. and Medeiros, R.A.C. (eds.) Quantum Zero-Error Information Theory. pp. 79–106. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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 Quantum Information Processing.

Blog post

Andrews, R.: Newly Discovered Tarantula May Have A Terrifying Attack Method, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/freakish-newly-discovered-tarantula-may-have-a-terrifying-attack-method/

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

Government Accountability Office: Information Security: FAA Needs to Address Weaknesses in Air Traffic Control Systems. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2015)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hrivnak, G.A.: Extending a model of leader -member exchange development: Individual and dyadic effects of personality, similarity and liking, (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

Rothenberg, B.: African-American Tennis, Fostered for 100 Years, (2017)

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	Quantum Information Processing
Abbreviation	Quantum Inf. Process.
ISSN (print)	1570-0755
ISSN (online)	1573-1332
Scope	Signal Processing Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Modelling and Simulation Theoretical Computer Science Statistical and Nonlinear Physics