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]

M. May, Statistics: Attacking an epidemic, Nature 509 (2014) S50-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.S. Grubb, J. Burrone, Activity-dependent relocation of the axon initial segment fine-tunes neuronal excitability, Nature 465 (2010) 1070–1074.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.R. Stratton, P.J. Campbell, P.A. Futreal, The cancer genome, Nature 458 (2009) 719–724.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

X. Xu, J.M. Clark, C.A. Forster, M.A. Norell, G.M. Erickson, D.A. Eberth, C. Jia, Q. Zhao, A basal tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China, Nature 439 (2006) 715–718.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D.F. Taber, Organic Synthesis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

M. Savransky, The Adventure of Relevance: An Ethics of Social Inquiry, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V. Kuliamin, Test Construction for Mathematical Functions, in: K. Suzuki, T. Higashino, A. Ulrich, T. Hasegawa (Eds.), Testing of Software and Communicating Systems: 20th IFIP TC 6/WG 6.1 International Conference, TestCom 2008 8th International Workshop, FATES 2008 Tokyo, Japan, June 10-13, 2008 Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 23–37.

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]

E. Andrew, Mice Skin Got Thinner After Three Months In Space, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/mice-skin-got-thinner-after-three-months-space/ (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, Bilingual Education: Four Overlapping Programs Could Be Consolidated, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R.J. Ferris, Numerical investigations of flow past a partially rotating stepped cylinder, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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]

S. Hodara, A Painter of Clouds, Revisited, New York Times (2015) CT8.

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