How to format your references using the Plasma Research Express citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Plasma Research Express. 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]

Cho A 2008 American Physical Society meeting. Magnetic measurements hint at toastier superconductivity Science 320 42–3

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gravitz L and Pincock S 2014 Sickle-cell disease Nature 515 S1

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kumarevel T, Mizuno H and Kumar P K R 2005 Structural basis of HutP-mediated anti-termination and roles of the Mg2+ ion and L-histidine ligand Nature 434 183–91

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Sakatani T, Kaneda A, Iacobuzio-Donahue C A, Carter M G, de Boom Witzel S, Okano H, Ko M S H, Ohlsson R, Longo D L and Feinberg A P 2005 Loss of imprinting of Igf2 alters intestinal maturation and tumorigenesis in mice Science 307 1976–8

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Overhauser A 2010 Anomalous Effects in Simple Metals (Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA)

An edited book

[1]

Dershowitz N and Nissan E 2014 Language, Culture, Computation. Computational Linguistics and Linguistics: Essays Dedicated to Yaacov Choueka on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday, Part III vol 8003 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Cannarsa P and D’Aprile T 2008 Spazi di Hilbert Introduzione alla teoria della misura e all’analisi funzionale UNITEXT ed T D’Aprile (Milano: Springer) pp 121–46

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 Research Express.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T 2016 Watch Live As Three Astronauts Return To Earth Tonight 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office 1999 Social Security Administration: Update on Year 2000 and Other Key Information Technology Initiatives (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

[1]

Bade L L 2010 Extending the benefits of alcohol and drug treatment: An exploration of volunteer utilization and delivery of recovery services Doctoral dissertation (Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University)

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]

Philpott M L 2017 Finding What I Need at the Mall New York Times SR10

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 Research Express
ISSN (online)	2516-1067
Scope