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

Benton R (2009) Eppendorf winner. Evolution and revolution in odor detection. Science 326:382–383

A journal article with 2 authors

Gonnermann HM, Mukhopadhyay S (2009) Preserving noble gases in a convecting mantle. Nature 459:560–563

A journal article with 3 authors

Santiago J, Henzler C, Hothorn M (2013) Molecular mechanism for plant steroid receptor activation by somatic embryogenesis co-receptor kinases. Science 341:889–892

A journal article with 5 or more authors

van Stelten J, Silva F, Belin D, Silhavy TJ (2009) Effects of antibiotics and a proto-oncogene homolog on destruction of protein translocator SecY. Science 325:753–756

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quadbeck-Seeger H-J (2007) World of the Elements. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Haller A, Huang G, Huang Z, et al (2013) Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2011 and 2012 Workshops: Combined WISE 2011 and WISE 2012 Workshops, Sydney Australia, October 12-14, 2011 and Paphos, Cyprus, November 28-30, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Brunner RD, Lynch AH (2010) Opening the Regime. In: Lynch AH (ed) Adaptive Governance and Climate Change. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, pp 187–260

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

Andrew E (2015) Chemical Messengers: How Hormones Affect Our Mood. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/chemical-messengers-how-hormones-affect-our-mood/. 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 (2011) Information Technology: OMB Needs to Improve Its Guidance on IT Investments. 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

Smith JA (2010) Functional analysis of ESAT-6 and EspB, two virulence proteins secreted by the ESX-1 system in Mycobacterium marinum. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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 (2016) She Breaks the Mold, and Keeps On Giving. New York Times 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	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

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