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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 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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Schiermeier, Q. A Change of Gear at Siemens. Nature 2007, 448 (7156), 852–853.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Thompson, W. G.; Goldstein, S. L. Open-System Coral Ages Reveal Persistent Suborbital Sea-Level Cycles. Science 2005, 308 (5720), 401–404.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Chabre, M.; Cone, R.; Saibil, H. Biophysics: Is Rhodopsin Dimeric in Native Retinal Rods? Nature 2003, 426 (6962), 30–31; discussion 31.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Williams, P. A.; Cosme, J.; Vinkovic, D. M.; Ward, A.; Angove, H. C.; Day, P. J.; Vonrhein, C.; Tickle, I. J.; Jhoti, H. Crystal Structures of Human Cytochrome P450 3A4 Bound to Metyrapone and Progesterone. Science 2004, 305 (5684), 683–686.

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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Mattone, J.; Vaidya, N. Cultural Transformations; John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

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Resilience Interventions for Youth in Diverse Populations; Prince-Embury, S., Saklofske, D. H., Eds.; The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality; Springer: New York, NY, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

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Chen, Z.; Jiang, Y.; Wang, R. Ant Colony Optimization with Different Crossover Schemes for Continuous Optimization. In Bio-Inspired Computing -- Theories and Applications: 10th International Conference, BIC-TA 2015 Hefei, China, September 25-28, 2015, Proceedings; Gong, M., Linqiang, P., Tao, S., Tang, K., Zhang, X., Eds.; Communications in Computer and Information Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015; pp 56–62.

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 C.

Blog post

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Andrew, E. Wearable Tech Could Turn Us Into Navel-Gazing Slaves To The Smartwatch. 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. Information Technology: Status and Challenges of Employee Exchange Program; GAO-07-216; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2006.

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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McGrath, P. M. Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008: A Policy Analysis. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2013.

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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Wagner, J. Mets’ Hobbled Rotation Takes Another Big Hit Before a Loss to the Nationals. New York Times. September 3, 2016, 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 C
Abbreviation	J. Phys. Chem. C Nanomater. Interfaces
ISSN (print)	1932-7447
ISSN (online)	1932-7455
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry General Energy Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Surfaces, Coatings and Films