How to format your references using the Plasmonics citation style

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

Short RV (2000) Where do babies come from? Nature 403:705

A journal article with 2 authors

Sylwestrak EL, Ghosh A (2012) Elfn1 regulates target-specific release probability at CA1-interneuron synapses. Science 338:536–540

A journal article with 3 authors

Copley A, Avouac J-P, Wernicke BP (2011) Evidence for mechanical coupling and strong Indian lower crust beneath southern Tibet. Nature 472:79–81

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Pauly D, Christensen V, Guénette S, et al (2002) Towards sustainability in world fisheries. Nature 418:689–695

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (2014) List of MAK and BAT Values 2014. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Gamage DT (2006) Professional Development for Leaders and Managers of Self-Governing Schools. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Zheng K, Zhang L, Xiang W, Wang W (2016) Resource Allocation in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks. In: Zhang L, Xiang W, Wang W (eds) Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 47–77

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 Plasmonics.

Blog post

Evans K (2016) 10 Popular “Life Hacks” That Are Completely Bogus. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/10-popular-life-hacks-that-are-completely-bogus/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1999) Schools And Libraries Program: Actions Taken to Improve Operational Procedures Prior to Committing Funds. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Swartz H (2017) The Multitude Speaks in Style: An Analysis of Vernacular Agency through Images of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic 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

Lanchester J (2016) How Economic Gobbledygook Divides Us. New York Times MM18

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	Plasmonics
Abbreviation	Plasmonics
ISSN (print)	1557-1955
ISSN (online)	1557-1963
Scope	Biochemistry Biophysics Biotechnology