How to format your references using the The Journal of Physical Chemistry A citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 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

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Triendl, R. Computerized Role Models. Nature 2002, 417 (6892), 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Conner, S. D.; Schmid, S. L. Regulated Portals of Entry into the Cell. Nature 2003, 422 (6927), 37–44.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Murthy, V. R.; van Westrenen, W.; Fei, Y. Experimental Evidence That Potassium Is a Substantial Radioactive Heat Source in Planetary Cores. Nature 2003, 423 (6936), 163–165.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Scott, T. W.; Takken, W.; Knols, B. G. J.; Boëte, C. The Ecology of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes. Science 2002, 298 (5591), 117–119.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Baldwin, P. OSx86; Wiley Publishing, Inc.: Indianapolis, IN, USA, 2010.

An edited book

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Functionalized Nanoscale Materials, Devices and Systems; Vaseashta, A., Mihailescu, I. N., Eds.; NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

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Liu, H.; Silva, E. A.; Wang, Q. The Foundation for Agent-Based Modelling: Empirical Evidence of Creative Industries’ Interactions with Urban Land Use in Nanjing. In Creative Industries and Urban Spatial Structure: Agent-based Modelling of the Dynamics in Nanjing; Silva, E. A., Wang, Q., Eds.; Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; pp 53–100.

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 The Journal of Physical Chemistry A.

Blog post

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Carpineti, A. What’s The Chance Of Life On Pluto? IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/what-s-the-chance-of-life-on-pluto/ (accessed 2018-10-30).

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

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Government Accountability Office. Highway Projects: Some Federal and State Practices to Expedite Completion Show Promise; GAO-12-593; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Allard, I. N. Examining the Relationship between Organizational Culture and Performance: Moderators of Culture Gap. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ, 2010.

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

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Williams, J. If They Don’t Believe You, Put It in Print. New York Times. September 24, 2017, p C5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
Abbreviation	J. Phys. Chem. A
ISSN (print)	1089-5639
ISSN (online)	1520-5215
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry