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

Buckingham, S., 2003. Bioinformatics: programmed for success. Nature 425, 209–215.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yu, T., Eberly, J.H., 2009. Sudden death of entanglement. Science 323, 598–601.

A journal article with 3 authors

Catling, D.C., Zahnle, K.J., McKay, C., 2001. Biogenic methane, hydrogen escape, and the irreversible oxidation of early Earth. Science 293, 839–843.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ohmoto, H., Watanabe, Y., Ikemi, H., Poulson, S.R., Taylor, B.E., 2006. Sulphur isotope evidence for an oxic Archaean atmosphere. Nature 442, 908–911.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

American Institute of Timber Constr, 2012. Timber Construction Manual. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Islam, S.M.N., 2009. Performance Measurement in Corporate Governance: DEA Modelling and Implications for Organisational Behaviour and Supply Chain Management, Contributions to Management Science. Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Wilcox, A.B., 2015. Leveraging Electronic Health Records for Phenotyping, in: Payne, P.R.O., Embi, P.J. (Eds.), Translational Informatics: Realizing the Promise of Knowledge-Driven Healthcare, Health Informatics. Springer, London, pp. 61–74.

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

Fang, J., 2015. Antarctic Ice Shelf Set To Collapse Within A Century [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, 1995. School Facilities: America’s Schools Not Designed or Equipped for 21st Century (No. HEHS-95-95). 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

O’Leary, J.J., 2012. Telling the story: Teaching leaders the art of storytelling and its impact on individuals and the organization (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Vecsey, G., 2010. One Bowl That Counts And 34 Others. New York Times B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buckingham, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Buckingham, 2003; Yu and Eberly, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Yu and Eberly, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Ohmoto et al., 2006)

About the journal

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