How to format your references using the International Journal of Theoretical Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Theoretical Physics. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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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Taubes, G.: Treat obesity as physiology, not physics. Nature. 492, 155 (2012)
A journal article with 2 authors
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Toroczkai, Z., Bassler, K.E.: Network dynamics: jamming is limited in scale-free systems. Nature. 428, 716 (2004)
A journal article with 3 authors
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Fiske, S.T., Harris, L.T., Cuddy, A.J.C.: Social psychology. Why ordinary people torture enemy prisoners. Science. 306, 1482–1483 (2004)
A journal article with 4 or more authors
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Comin, C.H., Santos, J.R., Corradini, D., Morrison, W., Curme, C., Rosene, D.L., Gabrielli, A., Costa, L. da F., Stanley, H.E.: Statistical physics approach to quantifying differences in myelinated nerve fibers. Sci. Rep. 4, 4511 (2014)

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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Chappell, D.: Building Contract Claims. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK (2009)
An edited book
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Fogarty, T.J., White, R.A. eds: Peripheral Endovascular Interventions. Springer, New York, NY (2010)
A chapter in an edited book
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Ramprasad, R., Shi, N., Tang, C.: Modeling the Physics and Chemistry of Interfaces in Nanodielectrics. In: Nelson, J.K. (ed.) Dielectric Polymer Nanocomposites. pp. 133–161. Springer US, Boston, MA (2010)

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 International Journal of Theoretical Physics.

Blog post
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O`Callaghan, J.: SpaceX’s Dragon Capsule Arrives At ISS For First Time In Seven Months, https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacexs-dragon-capsule-arrives-at-iss-for-the-first-time-in-seven-months/

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: Space Shuttle: Actions Needed to Better Position NASA to Sustain Its Workforce Through Retirement. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2005)

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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Liao, W.: The epitope specificity of the human anti-Candida albicans antibody M1g1, (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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Liptak, A., Shear, M.D.: Top Court Puts Gerrymandering On Unclear Path, (2017)

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 titleInternational Journal of Theoretical Physics
AbbreviationInt. J. Theor. Phys.
ISSN (print)0020-7748
ISSN (online)1572-9575
ScopeGeneral Mathematics
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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