How to format your references using the ergoscience citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ergoscience. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

[1]

Padma TV. Rivalry and Red Tape. Nature 2005; 436(7050): 490–491.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Xiong W, Ferrell JE Jr. A Positive-Feedback-Based Bistable “memory Module” That Governs a Cell Fate Decision. Nature 2003; 426(6965): 460–465.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Schön JH, Kloc C, Batlogg B. Superconductivity in Molecular Crystals Induced by Charge Injection. Nature 2000; 406(6797): 702–704.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Imai S, Armstrong CM, Kaeberlein M, Guarente L. Transcriptional Silencing and Longevity Protein Sir2 Is an NAD-Dependent Histone Deacetylase. Nature 2000; 403(6771): 795–800.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Massotte P, Corsi P. Smart Decisions in Complex Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Pudasaini SP. Avalanche Dynamics: Dynamics of Rapid Flows of Dense Granular Avalanches. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gecow A. Emergence of Chaos and Complexity During System Growth. In:. Aziz-Alaoui MA, Bertelle C (eds). From System Complexity to Emergent Properties. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2009; 115–154.

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 ergoscience.

Blog post

[1]

Evans K. British Expedition Gets Go-Ahead To Look For “Missing” Meteorites In Antarctica. IFLScience 2017.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Implementation of the Technology Transfer Act: A Preliminary Assessment. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Antoshin S. Modeling Inflation Expectations in the U.K. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 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

[1]

Vecsey G. Londoners Adopt Twisted Loyalties. New York Times 2012: B11.

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	ergoscience
Abbreviation	Ergoscience
ISSN (print)	1861-6348
ISSN (online)	1861-6356
Scope