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

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

D. Mawet, PLANETARY SCIENCE. Eyeing up a Jupiter-like exoplanet, Science 350 (2015) 39–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

W. Marande, G. Burger, Mitochondrial DNA as a genomic jigsaw puzzle, Science 318 (2007) 415.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Araki, Y. Sasaki, J. Milbrandt, Increased nuclear NAD biosynthesis and SIRT1 activation prevent axonal degeneration, Science 305 (2004) 1010–1013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Kumar, T.M. Arruda, A. Tselev, I.N. Ivanov, J.S. Lawton, T.A. Zawodzinski, O. Butyaev, S. Zayats, S. Jesse, S.V. Kalinin, Nanometer-scale mapping of irreversible electrochemical nucleation processes on solid Li-ion electrolytes, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1621.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D.W. Scott, Color Atlas of Farm Animal Dermatology, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

A. Bhagat, Foods of Non-Animal Origin: Chemistry, Technology, Inspection Procedures, 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.G. Musselman, Natural Law for Teaching Ethics: An Essential Tool and Not a Seamless Web, in: M.J. Cherry (Ed.), The Normativity of the Natural: Human Goods, Human Virtues, and Human Flourishing, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2009: pp. 55–74.

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 Reviews in Physics.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Live Webcast: Three Astronauts Head to ISS, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/space/live-webcast-three-astronauts-head-iss/ (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, Charter Schools: Limited Access to Facility Financing, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

W.A. Ennaco, Mastering morphosyntax: A pre-experimental study on the effectiveness of a parent-training program for preschoolaged children with specific language impairment, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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]

G. Clooney, J. Prendergast, A. Kumar, Sudan’s Rape of Darfur, New York Times (2015) A27.

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	Reviews in Physics
Abbreviation	Rev. Phys.
ISSN (print)	2405-4283
Scope