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

Nisbet, E.: Earth monitoring: Cinderella science. Nature. 450, 789–790 (2007)

A journal article with 2 authors

Corma, A., Serna, P.: Chemoselective hydrogenation of nitro compounds with supported gold catalysts. Science. 313, 332–334 (2006)

A journal article with 3 authors

Verbeeck, J., Tian, H., Schattschneider, P.: Production and application of electron vortex beams. Nature. 467, 301–304 (2010)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wöhri, A.B., Katona, G., Johansson, L.C., Fritz, E., Malmerberg, E., Andersson, M., Vincent, J., Eklund, M., Cammarata, M., Wulff, M., Davidsson, J., Groenhof, G., Neutze, R.: Light-induced structural changes in a photosynthetic reaction center caught by Laue diffraction. Science. 328, 630–633 (2010)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tripathi, N., Singh, R.S., Hills, C.D.: Reclamation of Mine-Impacted Land for Ecosystem Recovery. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2016)

An edited book

Ricci, F., Bontcheva, K., Conlan, O., Lawless, S. eds: User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: 23rd International Conference, UMAP 2015, Dublin, Ireland, June 29 -- July 3, 2015. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Horspool, R.N., Tillmann, N.: Audio. In: Tillmann, N. (ed.) TouchDevelop: Programming on the Go. pp. 73–81. Apress, Berkeley, CA (2013)

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

Luntz, S.: Metabolic Reactions Could Have Occurred Before The Formation Of Life, https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/metabolic-reactions-could-have-occurred-formation-life/

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 Technology: HHS Has Several Investment Management Capabilities in Place, but Needs to Address Key Weaknesses. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2005)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Baumgarten, D.K.: An Examination of the Relationship between Collegiate Student-Athlete’s Leadership Role in the Athletic Setting and Their Academic Success, (2013)

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

Saslow, L.: Nassau Has $100 Million for Open Space, (2007)

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

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