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

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

Spurgeon D 2001 Farmer fined for growing GM seed Nature 410 615

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Starr M B and Wang X 2013 Fundamental analysis of piezocatalysis process on the surfaces of strained piezoelectric materials Sci. Rep. 3 2160

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lorsch J R, Collins F S and Lippincott-Schwartz J 2014 Cell Biology. Fixing problems with cell lines Science 346 1452–3

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Liu S Q, Roberts D, Kharitonenkov A, Zhang B, Hanson S M, Li Y C, Zhang L-Q and Wu Y H 2013 Endocrine protection of ischemic myocardium by FGF21 from the liver and adipose tissue Sci. Rep. 3 2767

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bacon C R 2012 Practical Risk-Adjusted Performance Measurement (Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Au W W L 2008 Principles of Marine Bioacoustics ed M C Hastings (New York, NY: Springer US)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Godfrey-Smith P 2009 Abstractions, Idealizations, and Evolutionary Biology Mapping the Future of Biology: Evolving Concepts and Theories ed A Barberousse, M Morange and T Pradeu (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands) pp 47–56

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 Sources Science and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T 2017 Fish Caught Mid-Eating Another Fish Becomes Frozen Solid In Ice 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 Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Agencies’ Reporting of Mission-Critical Classified Systems (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]

Taboada-Peña R 2017 A Self-Empowering Holistic Art-Based Model Designed to Promote Emotional Well-Being, Coping Skills, and Self-Esteem in Youth 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]

Crow K 2002 One Week of Silent Soccer Seems to Be Quite Enough New York Times 146

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 Sources Science and Technology
Abbreviation	Plasma Sources Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0963-0252
ISSN (online)	1361-6595
Scope	Condensed Matter Physics