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

Triplett, B., 2000. Astronomers fume over night light. Nature 405, 987–988.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gerde, E., Marder, M., 2001. Friction and fracture. Nature 413, 285–288.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yazdanbakhsh, M., Kremsner, P.G., van Ree, R., 2002. Allergy, parasites, and the hygiene hypothesis. Science 296, 490–494.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chao, W., Huynh, K.D., Spencer, R.J., Davidow, L.S., Lee, J.T., 2002. CTCF, a candidate trans-acting factor for X-inactivation choice. Science 295, 345–347.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eden, A.H., 2011. Codecharts. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Albers, S., Alt, H., Näher, S. (Eds.), 2009. Efficient Algorithms: Essays Dedicated to Kurt Mehlhorn on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Marasinghe, M.G., Kennedy, W.J., 2008. Analysis of Variance Models, in: Kennedy, W.J. (Ed.), SAS for Data Analysis: Intermediate Statistical Methods, Statistics and Computing. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 1–113.

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, D., 2016. In Defence Of Racer Snakes – The Demons Of Planet Earth II (They’re Only After A Meal) [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/in-defence-of-racer-snakes-the-demons-of-planet-earth-ii-theyre-only-after-a-meal/ (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, 2003. Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes (No. GAO-04-213R). 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

Haire, K.K., 2015. Elucidation of the Role of Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase in Drug-Induced Toxicity (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Hodgman, J., 2017. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times MM18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Triplett, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gerde and Marder, 2001; Triplett, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Gerde and Marder, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Chao et al., 2002)

About the journal

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