How to format your references using the Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 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

[1]

Ajdari A 2007 Physics. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932-2007) Science 317 466

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Landskron K and Ozin G A 2004 Periodic mesoporous dendrisilicas Science 306 1529–32

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Meindl J D, Chen Q and Davis J A 2001 Limits on silicon nanoelectronics for terascale integration Science 293 2044–9

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Hale R, Mavrogordato M N, Tolhurst T J and Solan M 2014 Characterizations of how species mediate ecosystem properties require more comprehensive functional effect descriptors Sci. Rep. 4 6463

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Caban S, Mehlführer C, Rupp M and Wrulich M 2011 Evaluation of HSDPA and LTE (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Winter H 2007 Slow Heavy-Particle Induced Electron Emission from Solid Surfaces vol 225, ed J Burgdörfer (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ko P Y and Adamson B 2012 Chinese Language Pedagogy and Human Dignity: The Special Rank Teacher in the Aftermath of the Cultural Revolution Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Chinese Literacy in China Multilingual Education ed C B Leung and J Ruan (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands) pp 61–80

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 Physics and Controlled Fusion.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A 2016 How Phobos Got Its Giant Crater IFLScience

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

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Government Accountability Office 1999 Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Important Progress Made, Yet Much Work Remains to Ensure Delivery of Critical Services (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Kopaygorodsky E 2001 Mathematical Model of Ultra-Rapid PSA Doctoral dissertation (Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati)

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

[1]

Kishkovsky S 2007 Party Time Where the Soviet Army Strutted New York Times TR3

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 Physics and Controlled Fusion
Abbreviation	Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion
ISSN (print)	0741-3335
ISSN (online)	1361-6587
Scope	Nuclear Energy and Engineering Condensed Matter Physics