How to format your references using the Pacific Science Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pacific Science Review. 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. Shelton, Scientists and the media must give a balanced view, Nature. 479 (2011) 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E.S. Istvan, J. Deisenhofer, Structural mechanism for statin inhibition of HMG-CoA reductase, Science. 292 (2001) 1160–1164.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.A. Meek, H. Conrad, G. Meijer, Trapping molecules on a chip, Science. 324 (2009) 1699–1702.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Ferrant, Y. Caballero, J. Perrin, S. Gascoin, B. Dewandel, S. Aulong, F. Dazin, S. Ahmed, J.-C. Maréchal, Projected impacts of climate change on farmers’ extraction of groundwater from crystalline aquifers in South India, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 3697.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.A. Vilensky, W.M. Robertson, C.A. Suárez-Quian, The Clinical Anatomy of the Cranial Nerves, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

S. Klingebiel, T. Mahn, M. Negre, eds., The Fragmentation of Aid: Concepts, Measurements and Implications for Development Cooperation, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. Kruegel, Behavioral and Structural Properties of Malicious Code, in: M. Christodorescu, S. Jha, D. Maughan, D. Song, C. Wang (Eds.), Malware Detection, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2007: pp. 63–83.

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.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, How Neanderthal DNA Affects Your Genome, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-neanderthals-made-their-mark-our-species/ (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, NSF Experiment in Research Grant Administration Promising, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Krisher, Cell-Matrix Interaction: Activation of the MAP Kinase Signaling Pathway in Salivary Gland Cells, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 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]

M. Pilon, Before Games, Religious Questions, New York Times. (2012) D1.

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
Abbreviation	Pac. Sci. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1229-5450
Scope