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

Halzen, Francis, 2007, “Neutrino Astrophysics Experiments beneath the Sea and Ice,” Science 315, 66–68.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yacubova, Elina, and Hitoshi Komuro, 2002, “Stage-Specific Control of Neuronal Migration by Somatostatin,” Nature 415, 77–81.

A journal article with 3 authors

Suvà, Mario L., Nicolo Riggi, and Bradley E. Bernstein, 2013, “Epigenetic Reprogramming in Cancer,” Science 339, 1567–1570.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Truong, Quang Duc, Murukanahally Kempaiah Devaraju, Yoshiyuki Ganbe, Takaaki Tomai, and Itaru Honma, 2014, “Controlling the Shape of LiCoPO₄ Nanocrystals by Supercritical Fluid Process for Enhanced Energy Storage Properties,” Sci. Rep. 4, 3975.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zarowski, Christopher J., 2004, An Introduction to Numerical Analysis for Electrical and Computer Engineers (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ).

An edited book

Doumpos, Michael, Constantin Zopounidis, and Evangelos Grigoroudis, Eds., 2016, Robustness Analysis in Decision Aiding, Optimization, and Analytics, International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (Springer International Publishing, Cham), Vol. 241.

A chapter in an edited book

Damjanovic, Dragan, 2008, “Lead-Based Piezoelectric Materials,” in Piezoelectric and Acoustic Materials for Transducer Applications, edited by Ahmad Safari and E. Koray Akdoğan (Springer US, Boston, MA), pp. 59–79.

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, “Fake Orca Meant To Scare Sea Lions Fails Miserably,” IFLScience (IFLScience), June 5, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fake-orca-meant-scare-sea-lions-fails-miserably/.

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, 1983, “Status of Trident and SSN-688 Submarine Construction,” MASAD-83-10 (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

Kaplan, Joseph W., 2014, “Not a Sonata: A Conception of Sonata-Allegro Form and a Consideration of Two Marimba Works from a Langerian Perspective,” Doctoral dissertation, (California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Crow, Kelly, 2003, “Read All About It, Every Day for 70 Years,” New York Times, May 11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Halzen 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Halzen 2007; Yacubova and Komuro 2002).

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

Two authors: (Yacubova and Komuro 2002)
Three authors: (Suvà, Riggi, and Bernstein 2013)
4 or more authors: (Truong et al. 2014)

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