PubMan Func Spec Export/AJP
The Citation Style of the American Journal of Physics (AJP)[edit]
AJP provides genre specific citation for: Journal Article, Book, Thesis, Proceedings, Book Chapter and Report. For all other PubMan genres, please use the generic citation, which is specified below.
Overall Rules[edit]
- Creators are always presented in the following order: Firstname Lastname. E.g. Nicole Kondic
- If there are two creators, connect them with an "and" e.g. Nicole Kondic and Kristina Büchner
- If there are several creators, separate them with comma and the last one and the one before the last one with "and" e.g. Nicole Kondic, Kristina Büchener, and Ulla Tschida
Article Citation[edit]
Creator.Person.GivenName Creator.Person.FamilyName, "Title" Volume (Issue), startpage-endpage (year issued).
e.g.: Tilmann Hickel, Matthe Uijttewaal, Blazej Grabowski, and Jörg Neugebauer, "Determination of symmetry reduced structures using a soft phonon analysis for magnetic shape memory alloys," Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 20 (6), 28-35 (2008).
Book Citation[edit]
Citation for books where creator type other than editor[edit]
Creator.Person.GivenName Creator.Person.FamilyName, Title. (PublishingInfo.Publisher, PublishingInfo.Place, year issued), PublishingInfo.Edition ed.
e.g.: Rainer Grote and Dieter Kraus, Fälle zu den Grundrechten. (Beck, München, 2008), 3. ed.
Citation for books where creator type is editor[edit]
Creator.Person.GivenName Creator.Person.FamilyName (ed), Title. (PublishingInfo.Publisher, PublishingInfo.Place, year issued), PublishingInfo.Edition ed.
e.g.: D. Naujoks (ed), Plasma-Material Interaction in Controlled Fusion. (Springer, Berlin, 2006).
If more than one Editor exists, write (eds) instead of (ed)
e.g.: R. Behrisch and W. Eckstein (eds), Sputtering by Particle Bombardment: Experiments and Computer Calculations from Threshold to MeV Energies. (Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2007).
Thesis Citation[edit]
Creator.Person.GivenName Creator.Person.FamilyName, Degree, PublishingInfo.Publisher, year issued.
e.g.: S. Bäumel, PhD-Thesis, Universität Greifswald, 2008.
Book Chapter Citation[edit]
Creator.Person.GivenName Creator.Person.FamilyName, "Title", in Book Title, edited by (Source.Creator.CreatorType=Editor) Creator.Person.GivenName Creator.Person.FamilyName (PublishingInfo.Publisher, PublishingInfo.Place, year issued), Vol. Volume, pp. total number of pages
e.g.: H. Knözinger and E. Taglauer, "Spreading and Wetting", in Handbook of Heterogeneous Catalysis, edited by G. Ertl, H. Knözinger, F. Schüth, and J. Weikamp (Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2008), Vol.1, pp. 555-571.
Report Citation[edit]
Creator.Person.GivenName Creator.Person.FamilyName, Report No. <Report Number>, Year issued.
e.g.:. Y. Feng, R. Liu, J. Kisslinger, and F. Sardei, Report No. 8578, 2004.
Proceedings[edit]
e.g. T. M. Hirsch and H. W. Müller, presented at the IPP Summer University for Plasma Physics, Garching, 2006.
Generic Citation[edit]
Creator.Person.GivenName Creator.Person.FamilyName, "Title", in Source.Title, edited by (Source.Creator.CreatorType=Editor) Creator.Person.GivenName Creator.Person.FamilyName (PublishingInfo.Publisher, PublishingInfo.Place, year issued), Vol. Volume, pp. total number of pages OR startpage-endpage
e.g.: H. Knözinger and E. Taglauer, "It's raining today", in Heterogeneous Catalysis, edited by G. Ertl, H. Knözinger, F. Schüth, and J. Weikamp (Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2008), Vol.1, pp. 555.