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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Stewart, I., I. Mathematics. A Gathering of Groups. Nature 2000, 403 (6771), 719–720.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Skourtis, S. S.; Beratan, D. N. Biochemistry. Photosynthesis from the Protein’s Perspective. Science 2007, 316 (5825), 703–704.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Nicastro, F.; Mathur, S.; Elvis, M. Missing Baryons and the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium. Science 2008, 319 (5859), 55–57.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Toomey, D. R.; Jousselin, D.; Dunn, R. A.; Wilcock, W. S. D.; Detrick, R. S. Skew of Mantle Upwelling beneath the East Pacific Rise Governs Segmentation. Nature 2007, 446 (7134), 409–414.

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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Diver, D. A. Plasma Formulary for Physics, Astronomy, and Technology; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2013.

An edited book

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Wang, L. Hyperspectral Image Processing; Zhao, C., Ed.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

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Anderson, J.; Schiffer, C.; Lee, S.-K.; Swanstrom, R. Viral Protease Inhibitors. In Antiviral Strategies; Kräusslich, H.-G., Bartenschlager, R., Eds.; Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; pp 85–110.

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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Andrews, R. Stem Cells Have Been Used To Regenerate Damaged Monkey Hearts. 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. The Challenge of Data Sharing: Results of a GAO-Sponsored Symposium on Benefit and Loan Programs; GAO-01-67; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2000.

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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Emenyonu, N. I. Barriers to HIV Care in Rural Uganda. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2012.

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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Rothenberg, B. Djokovic Keeps Title Defense Alive, but Not Without an Early Scare. New York Times. June 2, 2017, p D3.

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