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

Bloch, Immanuel, 2008, “Quantum Gases,” Science 319, 1202–1203.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kimble, Judith, and David C. Page, 2007, “The Mysteries of Sexual Identity. The Germ Cell’s Perspective,” Science 316, 400–401.

A journal article with 3 authors

Scherer, E., C. Munker, and K. Mezger, 2001, “Calibration of the Lutetium-Hafnium Clock,” Science 293, 683–687.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Mao, Chuanbin, Daniel J. Solis, Brian D. Reiss, Stephen T. Kottmann, Rozamond Y. Sweeney, Andrew Hayhurst, George Georgiou, Brent Iverson, and Angela M. Belcher, 2004, “Virus-Based Toolkit for the Directed Synthesis of Magnetic and Semiconducting Nanowires,” Science 303, 213–217.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McKean, John, 2014, Customer’s New Voice (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ).

An edited book

Correa, José R., Alejandro Hevia, and Marcos Kiwi, Eds., 2006, LATIN 2006: Theoretical Informatics: 7th Latin American Symposium, Valdivia, Chile, March 20-24, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg), Vol. 3887.

A chapter in an edited book

Schlesinger, Karl-Georg, 2009, “Some Steps Towards Noncommutative Mirror Symmetry on the Torus,” in Quantum Field Theory: Competitive Models, edited by Bertfried Fauser, Jürgen Tolksdorf, and Eberhard Zeidler (Birkhäuser, Basel), pp. 83–94.

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, 2015, “First Deep Ice Core Samples Are Being Drilled At South Pole,” IFLScience (IFLScience), January 21, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/first-deep-ice-core-samples-are-being-drilled-south-pole/.

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, 1994, “Health Care: Benefits and Barriers to Automated Medical Records,” T-AIMD-94-117 (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

Dusenberry, William, 2017, “Integrating Depth Psychology in Adolescent Court-Mandated Treatment Facilities: Increasing Treatment Efficacy and Client Engagement,” Doctoral dissertation, (Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA).

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

Apuzzo, Matt, and Michael S. Schmidt, 2017, “Comey Tells How Trump Persisted in Pleas to F.B.I,” New York Times, June 7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bloch 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Bloch 2008; Kimble and Page 2007).

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

Two authors: (Kimble and Page 2007)
Three authors: (Scherer, Munker, and Mezger 2001)
4 or more authors: (Mao et al. 2004)

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