How to format your references using the Pulse citation style

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

Clack JA. Evolutionary biology: The origin of terrestrial hearing. Nature. 2015 Mar;519(7542):168–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bayer R, Colgrove J. Public health vs. civil liberties. Science. 2002 Sep;297(5588):1811.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wisse BE, Kim F, Schwartz MW. Physiology. An integrative view of obesity. Science. 2007 Nov;318(5852):928–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ito T, Wellmer F, Yu H, Das P, Ito N, Alves-Ferreira M, et al. The homeotic protein AGAMOUS controls microsporogenesis by regulation of SPOROCYTELESS. Nature. 2004 Jul;430(6997):356–60.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lewin MD. Better Software Project Management: A Primer for Success. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

Ornbo J. Experience-Based Communication. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Crescenzi R, Rodríguez-Pose A. The Role of Underlying Socio-Economic Conditions. In: Rodríguez-Pose A, editor. Innovation and Regional Growth in the European Union. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011; pp 51–73.

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 Pulse.

Blog post

Carpineti A. This “Frankenstein” Galaxy Is Made Up Of Bits Of Other Galaxies [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Jul [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/this-frankenstein-galaxy-is-made-up-of-bits-of-other-galaxies/

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. Use of Office and Administration Space at DOD Installations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1970.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Schellenberg DL. Divorced women, poverty, and the Social Security Act: A policy analysis. 2010

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

Photographs by GEORGE ETHEREDGE for THE NEW YORK TIMES. Voyeur: Construction Portholes. New York Times. 2017 Apr;RE8.

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	Pulse
Abbreviation	Pulse (Basel)
ISSN (print)	2235-8676
ISSN (online)	2235-8668
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