How to format your references using the Springer Science Reviews citation style

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

Smaglik P (2004) Making the switch. Nature 430:811

A journal article with 2 authors

Fratzl P, Barth FG (2009) Biomaterial systems for mechanosensing and actuation. Nature 462:442–448

A journal article with 3 authors

Yan S, Huse DA, White SR (2011) Spin-liquid ground state of the S = 1/2 kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet. Science 332:1173–1176

A journal article with 5 or more authors

de Heer WA, Poncharal P, Berger C, et al (2005) Liquid carbon, carbon-glass beads, and the crystallization of carbon nanotubes. Science 307:907–910

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith P (2016) Structural Design of Buildings. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Park H, Kim K-K (2014) Korean Education in Changing Economic and Demographic Contexts. Springer, Singapore

A chapter in an edited book

Gürses A, Açıkyıldız M, Güneş K, Gürses MS (2016) Dyeing and Dyeing Technology. In: Açıkyıldız M, Güneş K, Gürses MS (eds) Dyes and Pigments. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 47–67

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 Springer Science Reviews.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) John Oliver Verbally Batters Dr. Oz. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/john-oliver-verbally-batters-dr-oz/. 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 (2012) Highway Projects: Some Federal and State Practices to Expedite Completion Show Promise. 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

Dunbar S (2013) Sideshow: An alluring dichotomy of illusion and humanity. Doctoral dissertation, 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

As Told to (2007) WHY WE TRAVEL | MOSCOW. New York Times 517

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	Springer Science Reviews
Abbreviation	Springer Sci. Rev.
ISSN (online)	2213-7793
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