C. Bibliography writing guide

 

Writing a bibliography in JP2F journals follows the method used in the Journal of Physics: Conference Series. This method can be found in the reference manager Mendeley. A complete reference should provide the reader with enough information to locate the article concerned, whether published in print or electronic form, and should, depending on the type of reference, consist of: 

•   name(s) and initials;

•   date published;

•   title of journal, book or other publication;

•   titles of journal articles may also be included (optional);

•   volume number;

•   editors, if any;

•   town of publication and publisher in parentheses for books;

•   the page numbers.

 For Journal of Physics: Conference Series, please use the Vancouver numerical system where references are numbered sequentially throughout the text. The numbers occur within square brackets, like this [2], and one number can be used to designate several references. The reference list gives the references in numerical, not alphabetical, order.

 

Points to note

• There should be a 5 mm gap between the reference number (e.g., ‘[8]’) and the start of the reference text. Second and subsequent lines of individual references should be indented by 5 mm. For example:

 [1]     Aderhold J, Davydov V Yu, Fedler F, Klausing H, Mistele D, Rotter T, Semchinova O, Stemmer J and Graul J 2001 J. Cryst. Growth 222 701

• The authors should be in the form surname (with only the first letter capitalized) followed by the initials with no periods after the initials. Authors should be separated by a comma except for the last two which should be separated by ‘and’ with no comma preceding it.
• The article title (if given) should be in lower case letters, except for an initial capital, and should follow the date.
• The journal title is in italic and is abbreviated. If a journal has several parts denoted by different letters the part letter should be inserted after the journal in Roman type, e.g. Phys. Rev. A.
• Both the initial and final page numbers should be given where possible. The final page number should be in the shortest possible form and separated from the initial page number by an en rule

‘– ‘, e.g. 1203–14, i.e. the numbers ‘12’ are not repeated.

• References to printed journal articles. A normal reference to a journal article contains three changes of font.    

  

Here are some examples taken from published papers:

[1]     Strite S and Morkoc H 1992 J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 10 1237

[2]     Nakamura  S,  Senoh  M,  Nagahama  S,  Iwase  N,  Yamada  T,  Matsushita  T,  Kiyoku  H  and Sugimoto Y 1996 Japan. J. Appl. Phys. 35 L74

 

1.1.1. References to preprints. For preprints there are two distinct cases:

1. Where the article has been published in a journal and the preprint is supplementary reference information. In this case it should be presented as:

[1]     Kunze K 2003 T-duality  and  Penrose  limits  of  spatially  homogeneous  and  inhomogeneous cosmologies Phys. Rev. D 68 063517 (Preprint gr-qc/0303038)

1. Where the only reference available is the preprint. In this case it should be presented as

[1]     Milson R, Coley A, Pravda V and Pravdova A 2004 Alignment and algebraically special tensors Preprint gr-qc/0401010

 

 1.1.2. References to electronic-only journals. In general article numbers are given, and no page ranges, as most electronic-only journals start each article on page 1.

 

• For SISSA journals the volume is divided into monthly issues and these form part of the article number

[1]     Horowitz  G  T  and  Maldacena  J  2004  The  black  hole  final  state  J.  High  Energy  Phys. JHEP02(2004)008

 

 1.1.3. References to books, conference proceedings and reports. References to books, proceedings and reports are similar to journal references, but have only two changes of font.

 

 Points to note 

• Book titles are in italic and should be spelt out in full with initial capital letters for all except minor words. Words such as Proceedings, Symposium, International, Conference, Second, etc

should be abbreviated to Proc., Symp., Int., Conf., 2nd, respectively, but the rest of the title should be given in full, followed by the date of the conference and the town or city where the conference  was  held.  For  Laboratory  Reports  the  Laboratory  should  be  spelt  out  wherever possible, e.g. Argonne National Laboratory Report.

• The volume number, for example vol 2, should be followed by the editors, in a form such as

‘ed A J Smith and P R Jones’. Use et al if there are more than two editors. Next comes the town

• of publication and publisher, within brackets and separated by a colon, and finally the page numbers preceded by p if only one number is given or pp if both the initial and final numbers are given.

Examples taken from published papers:

[1]     Sze S M 1969 Physics of Semiconductor Devices (New York: Wiley–Interscience)

[2]     Dorman  L  I  1975  Variations  of  Galactic  Cosmic  Rays  (Moscow:  Moscow  State  University Press) p 103

[3]     Caplar R and Kulisic P 1973 Proc. Int. Conf. on Nuclear Physics (Munich) vol 1 (Amsterdam: North-Holland/American Elsevier) p 517

[4]     Szytula A and Leciejewicz J 1989 Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths vol 12, ed K A Gschneidner Jr and L Erwin (Amsterdam: Elsevier) p 133

[5]     Kuhn T 1998 Density matrix theory of coherent ultrafast dynamics Theory of Transport Properties of Semiconductor Nanostructures (Electronic Materials vol 4) ed E Schöll (London: Chapman and Hall) chapter 6 pp 173–214

 

1.2. Reference lists

Up to ten authors may be given in a particular reference; where there are more than ten only the first should be given followed by et al. If an author is unsure of an abbreviation it is best to leave the title in full. The terms loc. cit. and ibid should not be used.

Unpublished conferences and reports should generally not be included in the reference list and articles in the course of publication should be entered only if the journal of publication is known. A thesis submitted for a higher degree may be included in the reference list if it has not been superseded by a published paper and is available through a library; sufficient information should be given for it to be traced readily.