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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Bortman, H., 2000, “Requiem for an Observatory,” Nature 405, 504–506.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bromm, Volker, and Abraham Loeb, 2003, “The Formation of the First Low-Mass Stars from Gas with Low Carbon and Oxygen Abundances,” Nature 425, 812–814.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bao, S., V. T. Chan, and M. M. Merzenich, 2001, “Cortical Remodelling Induced by Activity of Ventral Tegmental Dopamine Neurons,” Nature 412, 79–83.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Masnadi, Mohammad S., Hassan M. El-Houjeiri, Dominik Schunack, Yunpo Li, Jacob G. Englander, Alhassan Badahdah, Jean-Christophe Monfort, et al., 2018, “Global Carbon Intensity of Crude Oil Production,” Science 361, 851–853.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Harris, Jonathan, 2013, The Utopian Globalists (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford).

An edited book

Christofides, Panagiotis D., 2005, Control of Nonlinear and Hybrid Process Systems: Designs for Uncertainty, Constraints and Time-Delays, Edited by Nael H. El-Farra, Lect. Notes Control (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg), Vol. 324.

A chapter in an edited book

Choi, Jungsoon, 2016, “Understanding Students’ Beliefs About Knowledge and Learning in a Sociocultural Context: The Case of Korean Middle School Students,” in The Psychology of Asian Learners: A Festschrift in Honor of David Watkins, edited by Ronnel B. King and Allan B. I. Bernardo (Springer, Singapore), pp. 53–70.

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

Taub, Ben, 2016, “Ancient Lost City Discovered Underground,” IFLScience (IFLScience), December 13, https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/ancient-lost-city-discovered-greek-hill/.

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, 2011, “Higher Education: Use of New Data Could Help Improve Oversight of Distance Education,” GAO-12-39 (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

Lewis, Donna S., 2010, “Global Educational Ecosystem: Case Study of a Partnership with K–12 Schools, Community Organizations, and Business,” Doctoral dissertation, (Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Chauncey, George, 2010, “Last Ban Standing,” New York Times, December 21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bortman 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Bortman 2000; Bromm and Loeb 2003).

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

Two authors: (Bromm and Loeb 2003)
Three authors: (Bao, Chan, and Merzenich 2001)
4 or more authors: (Masnadi et al. 2018)

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