How to format your references using the Resources citation style

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

Walker, R.J. Earth Science. The Extraterrestrial Wedding Ring. Nature 2000, 406, 359–360.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mukhopadhyay, S.; Linstedt, A.D. Manganese Blocks Intracellular Trafficking of Shiga Toxin and Protects against Shiga Toxicosis. Science 2012, 335, 332–335.

A journal article with 3 authors

Marston, J.O.; Riker, P.W.; Thoroddsen, S.T. Generation of Ultra-Sound during Tape Peeling. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4326.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tenoever, B.R.; Ng, S.-L.; Chua, M.A.; McWhirter, S.M.; García-Sastre, A.; Maniatis, T. Multiple Functions of the IKK-Related Kinase IKKepsilon in Interferon-Mediated Antiviral Immunity. Science 2007, 315, 1274–1278.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meiswinkel, R.; Meyer, J.; Schnell, J. Design and Construction of Nuclear Power Plants; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2013; ISBN 9783433602775.

An edited book

Dallenbach-Hellweg, G. Color Atlas of Histopathology of the Cervix Uteri; Knebel Doeberitz, M. von, Trunk, M.J., Eds.; 2nd ed.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006; ISBN 9783540251880.

A chapter in an edited book

Nikodem, M. DSA Signature Scheme Immune to the Fault Cryptanalysis. In Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications: 8th IFIP WG 8.8/11.2 International Conference, CARDIS 2008, London, UK, September 8-11, 2008. Proceedings; Grimaud, G., Standaert, F.-X., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008; pp. 61–73 ISBN 9783540858928.

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 Resources.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Ocean Plastic Mysteriously Disappears From Oceans Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/microplastics-are-choking-our-oceans/ (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 Serious Problems Continue to Trouble the Air Traffic Control Work Force; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1989;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Eaglin, M. A Secondary Data Analysis of Latino Families Who Successfully Terminated with Family Preservation. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2012.

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

Davey, M.; Yaccino, S. Milwaukee Suburb Tries to Cope With Girl’s Stabbing. New York Times 2014, A16.

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	Resources
ISSN (online)	2079-9276
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