How to format your references using the Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing. 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

Bainbridge WS (2003) Perceptions of science essay. Privacy and property on the Net: research questions. Science 302:1686–1687

A journal article with 2 authors

Sommaruga R, Kandolf G (2014) Negative consequences of glacial turbidity for the survival of freshwater planktonic heterotrophic flagellates. Sci Rep 4:4113

A journal article with 3 authors

Gagneux P, Moore JJ, Varki A (2005) The ethics of research on great apes. Nature 437:27–29

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wild C, Huettel M, Klueter A, et al (2004) Coral mucus functions as an energy carrier and particle trap in the reef ecosystem. Nature 428:66–70

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chartered Institute of Building (2016) Code of Practice for Programme Management in the Built Environment. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Parsons S, Maudet N, Moraitis P, Rahwan I (2006) Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: Second International Workshop, ArgMAS 2005 Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 26, 2005 Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Benjamini I, Schramm O (2012) Finite Transitive Graph Embeddings into a Hyperbolic Metric Space Must Stretch or Squeeze. In: Klartag B, Mendelson S, Milman VD (eds) Geometric Aspects of Functional Analysis: Israel Seminar 2006–2010. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 123–126

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 Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing.

Blog post

Carpineti C (2017) One Of The World’s Leading Astronomers Has A Dire Warning For Humanity. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1977) The Legality of the Release of Construction Grant Funds by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare for the University of California’s Proposed School of Dentistry. 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

Edmonds JL (2009) Mobility and population change in northeast Mississippi: An object-based seriation of projectile points as a relative paleodemographic indicator. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University

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

Brantley B (2017) The Boy’s Rescued. He Isn’t Free. New York Times C6

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	Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing
Abbreviation	Plasma Chem. Plasma Process.
ISSN (print)	0272-4324
ISSN (online)	1572-8986
Scope	General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry Surfaces, Coatings and Films Condensed Matter Physics