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]

Moore JE. The birth of topological insulators. Nature 2010;464:194–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Moore G, Wilson EO. Center for Applied Biodiversity Science. Integrating science and conservation. Nature 2000;405:254.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Pawlowski B, Dunbar RI, Lipowicz A. Tall men have more reproductive success. Nature 2000;403:156.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Najiminaini M, Vasefi F, Kaminska B, Carson JJL. Nanohole-array-based device for 2D snapshot multispectral imaging. Sci Rep 2013;3:2589.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Johnson JL. Probability and Statistics for Computer Science. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1997.

An edited book

[1]

Albert LA, Voogt P de, Gerba CP, Hutzinger O, Knaak JB, Mayer FL, et al., editors. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology: Continuation of Residue Reviews. vol. 186. New York, NY: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Mays RW. Clinical Development of MultiStem® for Treatment of Injuries and Diseases of the Central Nervous System. In: Hess DC, editor. Cell Therapy for Brain Injury, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 47–63.

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]

Andrews R. Can You Pass A High School Health Class Quiz On Nutrition? IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/high-school-health-class-quiz-nutrition/ (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. Highway Emergency Relief: Strengthened Oversight of Project Eligibility Decisions Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Tahira A. Synthesis of Bivalent Organothiophosphate Inhibitors and Their Inhibition of Butyrylcholinesterase: Studies towards a Potential Treatment of Cognitive Loss Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

Babcock L. Women, Repeat This: Don’t Ask, Don’t Get. New York Times 2008:BU19.

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