How to format your references using the Pacific Science Review A: Natural Science and Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pacific Science Review A: Natural Science and Engineering. 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]

D. Gershon, Crossing the divide between theory and practice, Nature 404 (2000) 316.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.B.V. Ramos, A. Laederach, Molecular biology: A second layer of information in RNA, Nature 505 (2014) 621–622.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

I.H. Stairs, A.G. Lyne, S.L. Shemar, Evidence for free precession in a pulsar, Nature 406 (2000) 484–486.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.S. Lee, Y.-J. Lee, E.L. Tae, Y.S. Park, K.B. Yoon, Synthesis of zeolite as ordered multicrystal arrays, Science 301 (2003) 818–821.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S.Y. Yan, Computational Number Theory and Modern Cryptography, John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd., Fusionopolis Walk, Singapore, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

L. Simich, L. Andermann, eds., Refuge and Resilience: Promoting Resilience and Mental Health among Resettled Refugees and Forced Migrants, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Field, Splitting the World of International Sport: The 1963 Games of the New Emerging Forces and the Politics of Challenging the Global Sport Order, in: J. Dart, S. Wagg (Eds.), Sport, Protest and Globalisation: Stopping Play, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016: pp. 77–99.

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 Pacific Science Review A: Natural Science and Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, New Stage in Cycle of Galaxies, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-stage-cycle-galaxies/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, FAA Reauthorization: Opportunity Exists to Address Safety, Capacity, and Efficiency Issues, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.S. Garishe, Protocol for file sharing in mobile ad hoc networks, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

J. Traub, Types of Catastrophe, New York Times (2016) BR12.

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	Pacific Science Review A: Natural Science and Engineering
ISSN (print)	2405-8823
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