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]

Simon JA. Transcription. Sweet silencing. Science 2009;325:45–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Matzke M, Matzke AJM. RNAi extends its reach. Science 2003;301:1060–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Clanet C, Hersen F, Bocquet L. Secrets of successful stone-skipping. Nature 2004;427:29.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wheeler TM, Sobczak K, Lueck JD, Osborne RJ, Lin X, Dirksen RT, et al. Reversal of RNA dominance by displacement of protein sequestered on triplet repeat RNA. Science 2009;325:336–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Center for Chemical Process Safety. Layer of Protection Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Stenström P, Dubois M, Katevenis M, Gupta R, Ungerer T, editors. High Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers: Third International Conference, HiPEAC 2008, Göteborg, Sweden, January 27-29, 2008. Proceedings. vol. 4917. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Suganthan PN. Differential Evolution Algorithm: Recent Advances. In: Dediu A-H, Martín-Vide C, Truthe B, editors. Theory and Practice of Natural Computing: First International Conference, TPNC 2012, Tarragona, Spain, October 2-4, 2012. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 30–46.

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]

Andrew E. Watch a Gorilla Reunite With The Man Who Raised Him. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-gorilla-reuniting-man-who-raised-him/ (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. Strategic Bombers: Logistics Decisions Impede B-1B Readiness and Supportability. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Leesombatpiboon P. Thailand’s energy security: Strategic Petroleum Reserve and its economic impacts. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2010.

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]

St. John Kelly E. Songs for Children That Won’t Make the Adults Fwow Up. New York Times 2000:143.

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