How to format your references using the Reviews of Modern Physics (with titles) citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Reviews of Modern Physics (with titles). 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	Download the output style file
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

Madariaga, Raul, 2007, “Geophysics. Slippery When Hot,” Science 316, 842–843.

A journal article with 2 authors

Antonakis, John, and Olaf Dalgas, 2009, “Predicting Elections: Child’s Play!,” Science 323, 1183.

A journal article with 3 authors

Charlesworth, Jonathan D., Timothy L. Warren, and Michael S. Brainard, 2012, “Covert Skill Learning in a Cortical-Basal Ganglia Circuit,” Nature 486, 251–255.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Cifuentes, Daniel, Huiling Xue, David W. Taylor, Heather Patnode, Yuichiro Mishima, Sihem Cheloufi, Enbo Ma, et al., 2010, “A Novel MiRNA Processing Pathway Independent of Dicer Requires Argonaute2 Catalytic Activity,” Science 328, 1694–1698.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fu, Feng, 2015, Advanced Modelling Techniques in Structural Design (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK).

An edited book

Gupta, Nalin, Anuradha Banerjee, and Daphne Haas-Kogan, Eds., 2010, Pediatric CNS Tumors, Pediatric Oncology (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg).

A chapter in an edited book

Jiao, Jiao, and Yasushi Nishihara, 2013, “Pharmaceuticals,” in Applied Cross-Coupling Reactions, edited by Yasushi Nishihara, Lecture Notes in Chemistry (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg), pp. 85–109.

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 of Modern Physics (with titles).

Blog post

Andrew, Elise, 2014, “Powdered Alcohol Coming To The US,” IFLScience (IFLScience), April 21, https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/powdered-alcohol-coming-us/.

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, 2001, “U.S. Infrastructure: Funding Trends and Federal Agencies’ Investment Estimates,” GAO-01-986T (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Crumlish, Shannon Barrett, 2014, “Domingo Chileno: An Overture for Orchestra,” Doctoral dissertation, (University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA).

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

Dinardo, Kelly, 2015, “What Tim Cope Learned from the Nomads,” New York Times, August 9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Madariaga 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Madariaga 2007; Antonakis and Dalgas 2009).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Antonakis and Dalgas 2009)
Three authors: (Charlesworth, Warren, and Brainard 2012)
4 or more authors: (Cifuentes et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Reviews of Modern Physics (with titles)
Abbreviation	Rev. Mod. Phys.
ISSN (print)	0034-6861
ISSN (online)	1539-0756
Scope	General Physics and Astronomy