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.W. Tiedemann, The song of the Neanderthal, Nature 404 (2000) 127.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Welker, F.J. Giessibl, Revealing the angular symmetry of chemical bonds by atomic force microscopy, Science 336 (2012) 444–449.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.M. Berson, F.A. Dunn, M. Takao, Phototransduction by retinal ganglion cells that set the circadian clock, Science 295 (2002) 1070–1073.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W. Tan, L. Chen, X. Ji, H.-Q. Lin, Photonic simulation of topological superconductor edge state and zero-energy mode at a vortex, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7381.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S.H. Kaisler, Software Paradigms, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

O. Civelli, Q.-Y. Zhou, eds., Orphan G Protein-Coupled Receptors and Novel Neuropeptides, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

X. Chen, J. Sun, M. Sun, A Hybrid Model of Connectors in Cyber-Physical Systems, in: S. Merz, J. Pang (Eds.), Formal Methods and Software Engineering: 16th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2014, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, November 3-5, 2014. Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 59–74.

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.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, The Secret Life of Native Bees, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/secret-life-native-bees/ (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, Federal Communications Commission: Assessment and Collection of Regulatory Fees for Fiscal Year 1999, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Buckowski, A Wave of Navy Blue Churning, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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]

J. Poniewozik, For Trump, Everything Is a Rating, New York Times (2017) C1.

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