How to format your references using the Pacific Science Review B: Humanities and Social Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pacific Science Review B: Humanities and Social Sciences. 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

McNutt, M., 2013. Climate change impacts. Science 341, 435.

A journal article with 2 authors

Macosko, E.Z., McCarroll, S.A., 2013. Genetics. Our fallen genomes. Science 342, 564–565.

A journal article with 3 authors

Izumikawa, T., Sato, B., Kitagawa, H., 2014. Chondroitin sulfate is indispensable for pluripotency and differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells. Sci. Rep. 4, 3701.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Siridechadilok, B., Fraser, C.S., Hall, R.J., Doudna, J.A., Nogales, E., 2005. Structural roles for human translation factor eIF3 in initiation of protein synthesis. Science 310, 1513–1515.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Elliott, C.H., Smith, L.L., 2010. Overcoming Anxiety for Dummies®. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Guliš, G., Mekel, O., Ádám, B., Cori, L. (Eds.), 2014. Assessment of Population Health Risks of Policies. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Ma, B., Chen, H., Chen, S.-Y., Zhang, J.-S., 2014. Roles of Ethylene in Plant Growth and Responses to Stresses, in: Tran, L.-S.P., Pal, S. (Eds.), Phytohormones: A Window to Metabolism, Signaling and Biotechnological Applications. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 81–118.

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 B: Humanities and Social Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Blame It On Mum And Dad: How Genes Influence What We Eat [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1981. Followup on Actions To Improve Coordination and Utilization of Human Resources Research and Development (No. FPCD-81-62). 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

Wilson, R.A., 2011. Spectroelectrochemical Sensing and Detection of Zinc in Serum by Anodic Stripping Voltammerty on a Bismuth Film Electrode (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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

Eligon, J., 2017. For Some in Charlottesville, Statue Dispute Distracts From City’s Deep Racial Split. New York Times A10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (McNutt, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Macosko and McCarroll, 2013; McNutt, 2013).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Macosko and McCarroll, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Siridechadilok et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Pacific Science Review B: Humanities and Social Sciences
ISSN (print)	2405-8831
Scope