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]

J. Chambers, Planetary science: Archaeology of the asteroid belt, Nature 460 (2009) 963–964.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Tobisu, N. Chatani, Chemistry. Remote control by steric effects, Science 343 (2014) 850–851.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

K.K. Marhas, J.N. Goswami, A.M. Davis, Short-lived nuclides in hibonite grains from Murchison: evidence for solar system evolution, Science 298 (2002) 2182–2185.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C.L. Grigsby, Y.-P. Ho, C. Lin, J.F.J. Engbersen, K.W. Leong, Microfluidic preparation of polymer-nucleic acid nanocomplexes improves nonviral gene transfer, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3155.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M.E. Hossain, Fundamentals of Drilling Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

I. Litvan, ed., Atypical Parkinsonian Disorders: Clinical and Research Aspects, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Bedigian, African Origins of Sesame Cultivation in the Americas, in: R. Voeks, J. Rashford (Eds.), African Ethnobotany in the Americas, Springer, New York, NY, 2013: pp. 67–120.

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]

D. Andrew, What The World’s Oldest Calculator Tells Us About The Ancient Greeks’ View Of The Universe, 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, Student Loans: Characteristics of Students and Default Rates at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Osifalujo, Code-switching in Working African Americans: Internalized Racism, Minority Status, and Organizational Commitment, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 2015.

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]

M.R. Gordon, T. Erdbrink, U.S. Shoots Down Syrian Warplane; Iran Launches Missiles Into Syria, New York Times (2017) A10.

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
Scope