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]

Fields B D 2001 Cosmology. A census of cosmic matter Science 294 529–30

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Johnson E J and Goldstein D 2003 Medicine. Do defaults save lives? Science 302 1338–9

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Runnels L W, Yue L and Clapham D E 2001 TRP-PLIK, a bifunctional protein with kinase and ion channel activities Science 291 1043–7

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Biederer T, Sara Y, Mozhayeva M, Atasoy D, Liu X, Kavalali E T and Südhof T C 2002 SynCAM, a synaptic adhesion molecule that drives synapse assembly Science 297 1525–31

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Rainey L D 2010 Confucius & Confucianism (Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell)

An edited book

[1]

Luo A C J and Afraimovich V 2010 Hamiltonian Chaos Beyond the KAM Theory: Dedicated to George M. Zaslavsky (1935–2008) vol 0 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Luches P and D’Addato S 2016 Reducible Oxides as Ultrathin Epitaxial Films Oxide Materials at the Two-Dimensional Limit Springer Series in Materials Science ed F P Netzer and A Fortunelli (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 119–48

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 Google Shows How Earth Has Changed In The Last 33 Years 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office 1993 Compensatory Education: Difficulties in Measuring Comparability of Resources Within School Districts (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]

Zhou Y 2010 Resource Management in Wireless Networks: Queue Management and Scheduling in Mesh Networks and Multi-Access Control in Internetworking Systems Doctoral dissertation (Washington, DC: George Washington 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

[1]

Murphy M J O 2013 Seafood With a Scenic Distraction New York Times LI8

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