How to format your references using the Results in Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Results in 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	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

[1]

Nurse P. Wee beasties. Nature 2004;432:557.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Theis TN, Solomon PM. It’s time to reinvent the transistor! Science 2010;327:1600–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Waelti P, Dickinson A, Schultz W. Dopamine responses comply with basic assumptions of formal learning theory. Nature 2001;412:43–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Chen Z, Yu D, Huang Y, Zhang Z, Liu T, Zhan J. Tunable SERS-tags-hidden gold nanorattles for theranosis of cancer cells with single laser beam. Sci Rep 2014;4:6709.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Horton W. E-Learning by Design. San Francisco, CA, USA: Pfeiffer; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Jin D, Lin S, editors. Advances in Electronic Commerce, Web Application and Communication: Volume 1. vol. 148. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Valdez-Hernández M. Vegetative and Reproductive Plant Phenology. In: Islebe GA, Calmé S, León-Cortés JL, Schmook B, editors. Biodiversity and Conservation of the Yucatán Peninsula, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 57–96.

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 Results in Physics.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan J. Scientists Shouldn’t Be Too Scared Of The Public When Discussing Climate Change. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientsits-shouldnt-be-too-scared-of-the-public-when-discussing-climate-change/ (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. Information Technology: Assessment of the Commerce Department’s Report on Worker Demand and Supply. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Liyakath RA. Reconfigurable Antenna and RF Circuits Using Multi-Layer Stretchable Conductors. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 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]

Barron J. In the Age of Reality TV, a Best-Selling Author Calls In Real-Life Heroes. New York Times 2017: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	Results in Physics
Abbreviation	Results Phys.
ISSN (print)	2211-3797
Scope	General Physics and Astronomy