The list of references should appear after the main body of the paper. Please refer to the Physical Review Style and Notation Guide or the The Reviews of Modern Physics Style Guide, as well as recent issues of the journal for current style. apssamp.tex shows examples of a variety of reference entries, e.g., byline, journal, book, and private communication. Remember to include a space (or hyphen) between author-name initials and between initial and surname.
The style for references in Reviews of Modern Physics is
different from that of Physical Review. An RMP compuscript
author shoud use the Harvard bibliographic style and citations
commands. Please consult the information provided at that journal's
World Wide Web home page, http://www.phys.washington.edu/~rmp/. The
harvard.sty package is available there.
References will be listed in the reference section using the
\bibitem{#1} command (for RMP, it will be the
\harvarditem command), and they will be cited in text using the
\cite{#1} command.
A cite command that has a list of references will be output with
consecutive reference numbers collapsed; e.g., [1,2,3,5,7,8,9] will be
output as [1--3,5,7--9]. No ordering will be done, so [1,3,2,4] will be
output as [1,3,2,4]. If you use a \cite{#1} command with a long list
of tags, you may need to split the list over more than one line. Use a %
character immediately following a comma to make sure that you do not get
unwanted spaces:
. . . as shown in \cite{a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,%
k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z}
Note the % inserted after the comma on the first line. This ensures that
the entire list will be processed correctly.
A byline endnote and the first reference cited may appear in the reference section like this:
\begin{references}
\bibitem[*]{AAAuth}Present Address: Brookhaven
National Laboratory, Upton, New York, 11973.
\bibitem{tal82}Y. Tal and L. J. Bartolotti,
J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 76}, 4056 (1982).
\end{references}
The [*] represents an optional, author-specified endnote symbol. If
an endnote symbol is not present, REVTeX will assign the next available
reference number.
AAAuth and tal82 are tags; they can be any string of letters
and numbers that you will easily associate with the reference. The tag
will be used in text to tell TeX what reference you want to cite. See
the example below.
input:
This has been noted previously \cite{tal82}.
output:
This has been noted previously [].
Input for an author name with a byline endnote is similar, but the output is different:
input:
\author{A. A. Author\cite{AAAuth}}
output:
A. A. Author
(See the Style Guides for details on proper usage of byline endnotes.) Output (galley style) in the reference section for the endnote and reference samples above will look like this:
Since Physical Review B uses superscript reference citations,
authors will need a special command to get on-line citations when the
prb style option is in effect. The command \onlinecite{#1}
can be used for this purpose. For example, if the prb style option
is in effect, Ref.\ \onlinecite{tal82} will give the output ``Ref.\
1''.
It should be mentioned that the normal LaTeX thebibliography
environment will also work in REVTeX .
There are also several tools for creating reference sections: prsty.bst, rmp.bst and reftest.tex.
prsty.bst is a BIBTeX style file that will output references in
Physical Review style. Using rmp.bst, and harvard.sty, yields
Reviews of Modern Physics style. You should now be able to use the normal
LaTeX/ BIBTeX commands (\bibliographystyle{#1} and
\bibliography{#1}) in lieu of typing in the references environment
by hand. If you do this, you must of course make sure that you
keep the correct references with the main file when you submit it. For the
sake of simplicity, it is better if the Editorial Office receive a single
file, especially in the case of an electronic submission. With these
concerns in mind, it is better to just comment out the two bibliography
commands and input the .bbl file directly into your main file just before
submitting it. It should run correctly this way. Please do not send
.bib or .bst files to the Editorial Office.
There is also a tool for authors that prepare their bibliographies by hand.
It is called reftest.tex. It will check to make sure that you (1) have no
uncited references, (2) have no undefined citations, and (3) have your
references in the same order as your citations. These are all requirements
in Physical Review style. This can only work if you use LaTeX's
\bibitem{#1} and \cite{#1} mechanisms. You just need to run
reftest through LaTeX. For example, suppose you want to check the
references for the file test.tex. You would first run test.tex through
LaTeX as usual. This creates an up-to-date auxiliary file, which is what
reftest uses to analyze your references. Then run LaTeX on reftest. You
will be prompted for the name of the file you wish to check (without the
extension). Answer test at the prompt (not test.tex or
test.aux). You will receive some messages on your screen and in the
log file (reftest.log) that tell you if there are any problems. You can
also preview or print the file reftest.dvi. If your references are out of
order, the correct order will be given only in reftest.dvi, not through
messages on the screen. Using reftest, an author can put the citations in
the correct order once, after writing the paper, by using the correct order
printed by reftest.
Quick guide to references: ( Physical Review Style)
\bibitem{#1} command begins a reference.
#1 in \bibitem{#1} is a tag; it can be any string
of letters and numbers that you will easily associate with the reference.
This tag will be used in text (with the \cite{#1} command) to tell
REVTeX what reference you want to cite.
\bibitem[*]{byline}. For Physical Review A, B, C, D, E, and
L, use [*], [\dagger], [\ddagger],
[\S], [\P], [\|],
[**], [\dagger\dagger], [\ddagger\ddagger],
[\S\S], [\P\P], [\|\|] in the
order listed. This conforms to the requirements detailed in the Physical Review Style and Notation Guide .