Footnotes and references

The list of references should appear after the main body of the paper. Please refer to the Physical Review Style and Notation Guide and recent issues of Physical Review for current style. Sample Compuscript A shows examples of a variety of reference entries, e.g., journal, book, byline, and private communication.

References will be listed in the reference section using the \bibitem command, and they will be cited in text using the \cite command.

A byline footnote 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 reference label. If a reference label is not present, REVTEX will assign the next available reference number.

{tal82} 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 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 [#!tal82!#].

Input for an author name with a byline footnote is similar, but the output is different:


input:
\author{A. A. Author\cite{AAAuth}}
output:


(See the Physical Review Style and Notation Guide for details on proper usage of byline footnotes.) Output (galley form) in the reference section for the footnote and reference samples above will look like this:


\begin{references} \bibitem[*]{AAAuth}Present Address: Brookhaven National Labor... ...Tal and L. J. Bartolotti, J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 76}, 4056 (1982). \end{references}


Quick guide to references:

• The \bibitem command begins a reference.

• References should be listed in the reference section in the order in which they are first cited in the text. (See next item.)

• References will automatically be numbered by REVTEX in the order in which they occur in the reference section, unless the author provides his/her own label.

• The {tal82} 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 to tell TEX what reference you want to cite.

• Footnotes to the byline should precede the references and should not be numbered. Provide a label in square brackets following the \label command. For Physical Review A, B, C, and D, use [*], [ \dag], [ \ddag], [ \S], [**], [ \dag \dag], [ \ddag \ddag], [ \S \S] in the order listed. This conforms to the requirements detailed in The Style and Notation Guide.