How to format your references using the Pacific Science Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pacific Science Review. 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

[1]

T. Reichhardt, NSF urged to take multidisciplinary tack on environment, Nature 421 (2003) 102.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. Ray-Gallet, G. Almouzni, Molecular biology. Mixing or not mixing, Science 328 (2010) 56–57.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G. Mancini, P.F. Ferrari, E. Palagi, Rapid facial mimicry in geladas, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1527.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R.J.L.F. Lemmers, P.J. van der Vliet, R. Klooster, S. Sacconi, P. Camaño, J.G. Dauwerse, L. Snider, K.R. Straasheijm, G.J. van Ommen, G.W. Padberg, D.G. Miller, S.J. Tapscott, R. Tawil, R.R. Frants, S.M. van der Maarel, A unifying genetic model for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, Science 329 (2010) 1650–1653.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Anderson, TKO Hiring!, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2007.

An edited book

[1]

M.F. Agnello, W.M. Reynolds, eds., Practicing Critical Pedagogy: The Influences of Joe L. Kincheloe, 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

F.H. Al Zadjali, Shared Writing in Omani Young Learner Classrooms, in: A. Ahmed, H. Abouabdelkader (Eds.), Teaching EFL Writing in the 21st Century Arab World: Realities and Challenges, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016: pp. 69–98.

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.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Petrified Tree Shows Scars From Prehistoric Wildfires, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/petrified-tree-shows-scars-prehistoric-wildfires/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Revisions Needed in Financial Management Policies of the Federal Government’s Automatic Data Processing Fund, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K.M. Bailey, A Phenomenological Study of How Biblical Spiritual Disciplines Influence Women’s Character and Leadership Practices in Christian Faith-based Institutions in Higher Education in North America, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2017.

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

[1]

L. Saslow, Honoring Neighbors Killed in Attacks, New York Times (2007) 14LI7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Pacific Science Review
Abbreviation	Pac. Sci. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1229-5450
Scope