How to format your references using the Physics of the Dark Universe citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Physics of the Dark Universe. 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]

D. Gershon, Western researchers reap rich rewards in eastern institutions, Nature. 407 (2000) 657–658.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. May, H. Brody, Nature index 2015 Asia-Pacific, Nature. 519 (2015) S49.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H. Takeuchi, N. Nakatsuji, H. Suemori, Endodermal differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells to insulin-producing cells in 3D culture, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4488.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

V.N. Gamezo, A.M. Khokhlov, E.S. Oran, A.Y. Chtchelkanova, R.O. Rosenberg, Thermonuclear supernovae: simulations of the deflagration stage and their implications, Science. 299 (2003) 77–81.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S.M. Iacus, Option Pricing and Estimation of Financial Models with R, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

D. Gabryś-Barker, A. Wojtaszek, eds., Studying Second Language Acquisition from a Qualitative Perspective, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R.P. Harrie, C.J. Kendall, Case Study 5 Choroidal Melanoma, in: C.J. Kendall (Ed.), Clinical Ophthalmic Echography: A Case Study Approach, Springer, New York, NY, 2014: pp. 11–11.

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 Physics of the Dark Universe.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Should We Edit Out Genetic Disease?, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/should-we-edit-out-genetic-disease/ (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, Mass Transit: Information on Federal Participation in Transit Benefit Programs, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.N. Dunn, Non-Athlete Students’ Attitudes toward Student-Athletes: A Social Identity Approach, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2015.

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. Apuzzo, E. Huetteman, White House Knew Flynn Lied, Ex-Official Testifies, New York Times. (2017) A1.

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	Physics of the Dark Universe
ISSN (print)	2212-6864
Scope	Space and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics