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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 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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Gewin, V. Hub of Alternative Energy. Nature 2007, 446 (7131), 106.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Szolnoki, A.; Perc, M. Defection and Extortion as Unexpected Catalysts of Unconditional Cooperation in Structured Populations. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5496.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Loudet, J. C.; Barois, P.; Poulin, P. Colloidal Ordering from Phase Separation in a Liquid-Crystalline Continuous Phase. Nature 2000, 407 (6804), 611–613.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Pal, A.; Shirodkar, S. N.; Gohil, S.; Ghosh, S.; Waghmare, U. V.; Ayyub, P. Multiferroic Behavior in Elemental Selenium below 40 K: Effect of Electronic Topology. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2051.

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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Stavetski, E. J. Managing Hedge Fund Managers; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2009.

An edited book

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AccessNets: Third International Conference on Access Networks, AccessNets 2008, Las Vegas, NV, USA, October 15-17, 2008. Revised Papers; Wang, C., Ed.; Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; Vol. 6.

A chapter in an edited book

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Altmann, K.-H. Preclinical Pharmacology and Structure-Activity Studies of Epothilones. In The Epothilones: An Outstanding Family of Anti-Tumor Agents: From Soil to the Clinic; Höfle, G., Müller, R., Mulzer, J., Prantz, K., Eds.; Kinghorn, A. D., Falk, H., Kobayashi, J., Herz, W., Dirsch, V., Gibbons, S., Oberlies, N. H., Ye, Y., Series Eds.; Fortschritte der Chemie organischer Naturstoffe / Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products; Springer: Vienna, 2009; pp 157–220.

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 Letters.

Blog post

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Hamilton, K. What The Color of Your Urine Says About Your Health. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-color-your-urine-says-about-your-health/ (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. International Aviation: Airline Alliances Produce Benefits, but Effect on Competition Is Uncertain; RCED-95-99; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1995.

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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Beck, K. Comparing High School Physics Standards: What Is Included and What Is Not. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2011.

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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Baker, L. The Windsurf’s Up On the Columbia River. New York Times. May 12, 2006, p F10.

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 Letters
Abbreviation	J. Phys. Chem. Lett.
ISSN (online)	1948-7185
Scope	General Materials Science