How to format your references using the Plasma Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Plasma Medicine (PMED). 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

Raguso RA. Plant science. The “invisible hand” of floral chemistry. Science. 2008 Aug 29;321(5893):1163–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Debenedetti PG, Stillinger FH. Supercooled liquids and the glass transition. Nature. 2001 Mar 8;410(6825):259–67.

A journal article with 3 authors

Royden LH, Burchfiel BC, van der Hilst RD. The geological evolution of the Tibetan Plateau. Science. 2008 Aug 22;321(5892):1054–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Krinos CM, Coyne MJ, Weinacht KG, Tzianabos AO, Kasper DL, Comstock LE. Extensive surface diversity of a commensal microorganism by multiple DNA inversions. Nature. 2001 Nov 29;414(6863):555–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cicek V. Cathodic Protection. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Ralchenko Y, editor. Modern Methods in Collisional-Radiative Modeling of Plasmas. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. X, 212 p. 76 illus., 24 illus. in color. (Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics; vol. 90).

A chapter in an edited book

Cohen YH, Reich Y. Literature Review Conclusions and Definition of Research Target. In: Reich Y, editor. Biomimetic Design Method for Innovation and Sustainability. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 45–9.

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 Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. NASA Astronaut Takes Extraordinary Photographs Of The Great Pyramids. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/incredible-images-great-pyramids-and-more-taken-nasa-astronaut-his-last-day-space/

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. High Risk Series: Student Financial Aid. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995 Feb. Report No.: HR-95-10.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Reddy GS. Modulo Multipliers with Adaptive Delay for a High Dynamic Range Residue Number System Using Booth Encoding [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

Walsh MW. Team of 7 From Finance and Law to Oversee Puerto Rico’s Fiscal Affairs. New York Times. 2016 Sep 1;B3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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 Medicine
ISSN (print)	1947-5764
ISSN (online)	1947-5772
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