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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 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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Bai, C. Global Voices of Science. Ascent of Nanoscience in China. Science 2005, 309 (5731), 61–63.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Low, H. H.; Löwe, J. A Bacterial Dynamin-like Protein. Nature 2006, 444 (7120), 766–769.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Schultz, P. H.; Staid, M. I.; Pieters, C. M. Lunar Activity from Recent Gas Release. Nature 2006, 444 (7116), 184–186.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Sahai, R.; Morris, M.; Knapp, G. R.; Young, K.; Barnbaum, C. A Collimated, High-Speed Outflow from the Dying Star V Hydrae. Nature 2003, 426 (6964), 261–264.

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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Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Investigating Chemical Process Incidents; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2003.

An edited book

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Dufour, J.-P. Poisson Structures and Their Normal Forms; Zung, N. T., Bass, H., Oesterlé, J., Weinstein, A., Eds.; Progress in Mathematics; Birkhäuser: Basel, 2005; Vol. 242.

A chapter in an edited book

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Huber, L.; Range, F.; Virányi, Z. Dog Imitation and Its Possible Origins. In Domestic Dog Cognition and Behavior: The Scientific Study of Canis familiaris; Horowitz, A., Ed.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014; pp 79–100.

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 B.

Blog post

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Hale, T. Theives Have Stolen 24,000 Bees From English Country Estate. IFLScience.

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. Best Management Practices: Reengineering the Air Force’s Logistics System Can Yield Substantial Savings; NSIAD-96-5; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1996.

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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Allen, E. L. Teacher Evaluation and Student Achievement in Elementary Education. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO, 2015.

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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Shpigel, B. While Nashville Parties, the Predators Cut Loose. New York Times. June 4, 2017, p SP7.

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 B
Abbreviation	J. Phys. Chem. B
ISSN (print)	1520-6106
ISSN (online)	1520-5207
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Materials Chemistry Surfaces, Coatings and Films