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

Strong M (2005) Scientists and societies. Community outreach. Nature 434:418

A journal article with 2 authors

Spaldin NA, Fiebig M (2005) Materials science. The renaissance of magnetoelectric multiferroics. Science 309:391–392

A journal article with 3 authors

Mertens K, Putkaradze V, Vorobieff P (2004) Braiding patterns on an inclined plane. Nature 430:165

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lecrenier MC, Ledoux Q, Berben G, et al (2014) Determination of the ruminant origin of bone particles using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). Sci Rep 4:5730

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Crowl DA (2003) Understanding Explosions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Tomás-Rodríguez M (2010) Linear, Time-varying Approximations to Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: with Applications in Control and Optimization. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Kirimlioglu H, Demetris AJ, Nalesnik MA (2005) Pathological Aspects of Hepatocellular Tumors. In: Carr BI (ed) Hepatocellular Cancer: Diagnosis and Treatment. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 77–115

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

Davis J (2017) Ancient Fossil Shows First Evidence Of Live Births In Animals Thought To Only Lay Eggs. 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 (2004) Aviation Security: Private Screening Contractors Have Little Flexibility to Implement Innovative Approaches. 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

Collins L (2009) A community risk assessment of the 90062 zip code. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Fausset R, Shear MD, Nixon R, Robles F (2017) Slow Pace of Aid Riles Puerto Rico. New York Times 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	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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