How to format your references using the Publications citation style

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

Chyba, C.F. Energy for Microbial Life on Europa. Nature 2000, 403, 381–382.

A journal article with 2 authors

Perepichka, D.F.; Rosei, F. Chemistry. Extending Polymer Conjugation into the Second Dimension. Science 2009, 323, 216–217.

A journal article with 3 authors

Russo, R.; Herrmann, H.J.; de Arcangelis, L. Brain Modularity Controls the Critical Behavior of Spontaneous Activity. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4312.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hata, K.; Futaba, D.N.; Mizuno, K.; Namai, T.; Yumura, M.; Iijima, S. Water-Assisted Highly Efficient Synthesis of Impurity-Free Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Science 2004, 306, 1362–1364.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kossiakoff, A.; Sweet, W.N. Systems Engineering Principles and Practice; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2005; ISBN 9780471723639.

An edited book

Glycobiology of the Nervous System; Yu, R.K., Schengrund, C.-L., Eds.; Advances in Neurobiology; Springer: New York, NY, 2014; Vol. 9; ISBN 9781493911530.

A chapter in an edited book

Ramanan, R.; Taback, H. Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility for Spirituality and Sustainability. In Spirituality and Sustainability: New Horizons and Exemplary Approaches; Dhiman, S., Marques, J., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 73–88 ISBN 9783319342337.

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 Publications.

Blog post

Luntz, S. Secrets Of A “Nude Plant” Could Help Grow Food On Mars (accessed on 30 October 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 Aerospace Testing: Promise of Closer NASA/DOD Cooperation Remains Largely Unfulfilled; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1998;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Campbell, A.B. An Analysis of the Demography and Habitat Usage of Roatán’s Spiny-Tailed Iguana, Ctenosaura Oedirhina. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University: Boca Raton, FL, 2015.

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

Vecsey, G. For Golf’s No. 1 Pitchman, Silence Doesn’t Sell. New York Times 2009, D2.

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	Publications
ISSN (online)	2304-6775
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