How to format your references using the Pacific Science Review B: Humanities and Social Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pacific Science Review B: Humanities and Social Sciences. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Wright, P.A., 2010. Chemistry. Opening the door to peptide-based porous solids. Science 329, 1025–1026.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gouaux, E., Mackinnon, R., 2005. Principles of selective ion transport in channels and pumps. Science 310, 1461–1465.

A journal article with 3 authors

Niu, M., Cheng, D., Cao, D., 2014. SiH/TiO2 and GeH/TiO2 heterojunctions: promising TiO2-based photocatalysts under visible light. Sci. Rep. 4, 4810.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Huang, J.Y., Zhong, L., Wang, C.M., Sullivan, J.P., Xu, W., Zhang, L.Q., Mao, S.X., Hudak, N.S., Liu, X.H., Subramanian, A., Fan, H., Qi, L., Kushima, A., Li, J., 2010. In situ observation of the electrochemical lithiation of a single SnO₂ nanowire electrode. Science 330, 1515–1520.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

McGee, G., 2012. Bioethics for beginners. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Ortega, J. (Ed.), 2016. Sociality in Bats. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

García, S., Luengo, J., Herrera, F., 2015. Dealing with Noisy Data, in: Luengo, J., Herrera, F. (Eds.), Data Preprocessing in Data Mining, Intelligent Systems Reference Library. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 107–145.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Pacific Science Review B: Humanities and Social Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. How Poo-Sniffing Detective Dogs Can Save Elusive, Rare Gorillas [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-poo-sniffing-detective-dogs-can-save-elusive-rare-gorillas/ (accessed 10.30.18).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office, 1993. B-2 Bomber: Acquisition Cost Estimates (No. NSIAD-93-48BR). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Ortega, S. de, 2006. The Impact of Outcome Measurement on Non-profit Organizations: A Case Study (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Mcbride, K., 2015. When It’s O.K. to Pay for a Story. New York Times A23.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Wright, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Gouaux and Mackinnon, 2005; Wright, 2010).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Gouaux and Mackinnon, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Huang et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Pacific Science Review B: Humanities and Social Sciences
ISSN (print)	2405-8831
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