How to format your references using the Plasma Science and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Plasma Science and Technology. 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	Download the output style file
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]

Helmuth L 2000 NEUROSCIENCE: Tips for Neuroscience Neophytes Science 290 699

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kokko H and López-Sepulcre A 2006 From individual dispersal to species ranges: perspectives for a changing world Science 313 789–91

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gitlin L, Karelsky S and Andino R 2002 Short interfering RNA confers intracellular antiviral immunity in human cells Nature 418 430–4

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Zhou T-B, Qin Y-H, Lei F-Y, Huang W-F and Drummen G P C 2013 Prohibitin is associated with antioxidative protection in hypoxia/reoxygenation-induced renal tubular epithelial cell injury Sci. Rep. 3 3123

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Borchard-Tuch C and Groß M 2005 Was Biotronik alles kann (Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA)

An edited book

[1]

de Jeu M, de Pagter B, van Gaans O and Veraar M 2016 Ordered Structures and Applications: Positivity VII (Zaanen Centennial Conference), 22-26 July 2013, Leiden, the Netherlands (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Mattox A, Li J, Di C and Adamson D C 2012 Medulloblastoma: Role of OTX2 Transcription Factors Tumors of the Central Nervous System, Volume 8: Astrocytoma, Medulloblastoma, Retinoblastoma, Chordoma, Craniopharyngioma, Oligodendroglioma, and Ependymoma ed M A Hayat (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands) pp 47–58

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 Science and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

Evans K 2017 LEGO To Launch “Women In NASA” Collection 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 1976 Community Placement of the Mentally Disabled in Michigan] (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]

Cannon M P 2013 Cenozoic kinematics of the Little Pine fault, Santa Maria Basin, California Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach)

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]

Walsh M W 2012 Crushed by Promises New York Times B1

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 Science and Technology
Abbreviation	Plasma Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	1009-0630
Scope	Condensed Matter Physics