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]

Duster T. Medicine. Race and Reification in Science. Science 2005; 307(5712): 1050–1051.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Fehr E, Fischbacher U. The Nature of Human Altruism. Nature 2003; 425(6960): 785–791.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Munsky B, Neuert G, van Oudenaarden A. Using Gene Expression Noise to Understand Gene Regulation. Science 2012; 336(6078): 183–187.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Harris AC, Kamenetsky VS, White NC, van Achterbergh E, Ryan CG. Melt Inclusions in Veins: Linking Magmas and Porphyry Cu Deposits. Science 2003; 302(5653): 2109–2111.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Volpe MA. Rethinking Christian Identity. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Wojciechowski K, Smolka B, Palus H, Kozera RS, Skarbek W, Noakes L, editors. Computer Vision and Graphics: International Conference, ICCVG 2004, Warsaw, Poland, September 2004, Proceedings, vol. 32. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Eberhardt F, Glymour C, Scheines R. N-1 Experiments Suffice to Determine the Causal Relations Among N Variables. In:. Holmes DE, Jain LC (eds). Innovations in Machine Learning: Theory and Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2006; 97–112.

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]

Carpineti A. The Universe Is Not Expanding In A Preferred Direction. IFLScience 2016.

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. Information Technology: VA and DOD Face Challenges in Completing Key Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Pookcharoen S. Metacognitive Online Reading Strategies among Thai EFL University Students. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 2009.

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]

Kishkovsky S. Critics See Kremlin’s Hand in Charges Against Ex-K.G.B. Agent. New York Times 2004: 127.

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