How to format your references using the Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 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]

Fairley W B 2000 Outrageous events: don’t count them out Science 290 715

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Paterson W S and Reeh N 2001 Thinning of the ice sheet in northwest Greenland over the past forty years Nature 414 60–2

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gómez J M, Verdú M and Perfectti F 2010 Ecological interactions are evolutionarily conserved across the entire tree of life Nature 465 918–21

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Avvakumov G V, Walker J R, Xue S, Li Y, Duan S, Bronner C, Arrowsmith C H and Dhe-Paganon S 2008 Structural basis for recognition of hemi-methylated DNA by the SRA domain of human UHRF1 Nature 455 822–5

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Cohen W R and Friedman E A 2011 Labor and Delivery Care (Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell)

An edited book

[1]

Preissl B and Müller J 2006 Governance of Communication Networks: Connecting Societies and Markets with IT (Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Buxarrais M R and Esteban F 2011 Moral Education from A Humanist Perspective Education and Humanism: Linking Autonomy and Humanity ed W Veugelers (Rotterdam: SensePublishers) pp 47–65

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 Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion.

Blog post

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Luntz S 2015 Supermassive Black Hole Is Thirty Times Larger Than It Should Be IFLScience

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

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Government Accountability Office 2009 Emergency Communications: National Communications System Provides Programs for Priority Calling, but Planning for New Initiatives and Performance Measurement Could be Strengthened (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Cuvar K M 2015 Balanced and collaborative outsourcing of IT services: A qualitative Delphi study of enterprise partnerships Doctoral dissertation (Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix)

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]

Kelly C 2011 A No. 2 Theater Company Grabs the State Spotlight New York Times A25B

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	Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Abbreviation	Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion
ISSN (print)	0741-3335
ISSN (online)	1361-6587
Scope	Nuclear Energy and Engineering Condensed Matter Physics