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

Bourzac K (2015) Batteries: 4 big questions. Nature 526:S105

A journal article with 2 authors

Li W, Chetelat RT (2010) A pollen factor linking inter- and intraspecific pollen rejection in tomato. Science 330:1827–1830

A journal article with 3 authors

Nussbaumer AD, Fisher CR, Bright M (2006) Horizontal endosymbiont transmission in hydrothermal vent tubeworms. Nature 441:345–348

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kuroha T, Nagai K, Gamuyao R, et al (2018) Ethylene-gibberellin signaling underlies adaptation of rice to periodic flooding. Science 361:181–186

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Leleux B, van Swaay H, Megally E (2015) Private Equity 4.0. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Vymazal J (2015) The Role of Natural and Constructed Wetlands in Nutrient Cycling and Retention on the Landscape. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Coles LS (2010) The Ethical Basis for Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells in the Treatment of Aging. In: Fahy GM, West MD, Coles LS, Harris SB (eds) The Future of Aging: Pathways to Human Life Extension. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 63–86

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 (2014) Watch The ESA’s Ariane 5 Rocket Launch Live! In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-esa’s-ariane-5-rocket-launch-live/. 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 (2009) Rail Transit: Observations on FTA’s State Safety Oversight Program and Potential Change in Its Oversight Role. 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

Sylvain O (2010) Domesticating “the Great, Throbbing, Common Pulse of America”: A Study of the Ideological Origins of the Radio Act of 1927. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia 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

Billard M (2010) A Pop-Up Showcase. New York Times E6

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