Citation Style Manuals
AIP Style Manual, 4th ed. (Online PDF)
Call Number: QC5.45 .A45 1990ISBN: 088318642XPublication Date: 1990Also available in print.
This is the style manual to use in physics. Much of this guide is aimed at physicists writing papers for submission, so not all of it is relevant. Information on citing sources is on page 1 and pages 8-9. For more detailed guidance, see the Chicago Manual of Style.
- Overview of AIP StyleThis guide gives examples of how citations should be formatted in AIP style.
- Look at examples for Notes (not Bibliography Entry)
- Use initials for first names instead of spelling them out as in Chicago
- Order the elements of your citation according to the AIP manual, as it differs from Chicago's.
- Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide: Notes & Bibliography
Compiled and published by the Chicago Manual of Style (for footnotes and endnote; humanities). Contains examples for how to cite: Book; Chapter or other part of an edited book; Translated book; E-book; Journal article; News or magazine article; Book review; Interview; Personal communication; Thesis or dissertation; Web page; Social media content; Video or podcast.
Sample Citations
Journal articles
First-Initial Last-Name, Abbreviated-Journal-Title Volume-Number, Start-Page (year).
If article title is to be included:
First-Initial Last-Name, "Article Title (not always included)," Abbreviated-Journal-Title Volume-Number, Start-Page (year).
If end-pages are to be included:
First-Initial Last-Name, Abbreviated-Journal-Title Volume-Number, StartPage-EndPage (year).
Examples
1. J. B. Ruebeck, J. Lin, and A. K. Pattanayak, Phys. Rev. E 95, 062222 (2017).
2. A. J. Metcalf, C. D. Fredrick, R. C. Terrien et. al, Opt. Lett. 44, 2673 (2019).
Books
First-Initial Last-Name, Title, Xnd ed. (edition number) (Publisher, Publisher-City, Year), p. start-number.
Note: book titles should be italicized.
If a book chapter or conference paper:
First-Initial Last-Name, in Proceedings-Title-Or-Book-Title, edited by First-Name Last-Name (Publisher, Publisher-City, Year), p. start-number.
Examples
K. F. Kaplan, C. F. Bender, R. C. Terrien, in Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXVIII (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2019).
Finding Journal Abbreviations
In AIP Style, scholarly journals are referred to using abbreviated titles; for example, the journal Reviews of Modern Physics would be abbreviated to Rev. Mod. Phys. If journal title abbreviations do not appear automatically in your Zotero record (or if you're typing out your citations by hand), try searching by journal title in the sources linked below to find official journal title abbreviations.
- CASSI Journal Abbreviations SearchFind abbreviations for journals in chemistry and related fields.
- National Library of Medicine CatalogFind abbreviations for journals in medicine and related fields.
