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]

Storb R 2012 Edward Donnall Thomas (1920-2012) Nature 491 334

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Byers J and Dunn S 2013 Response to comments on “Bateman in nature: predation on offspring reduces the potential for sexual selection” Science 340 549

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Wu L-A, Walther P and Lidar D A 2013 No-go theorem for passive single-rail linear optical quantum computing Sci. Rep. 3 1394

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

DiTullio G R, Grebmeier J M, Arrigo K R, Lizotte M P, Robinson D H, Leventer A, Barry J P, VanWoert M L and Dunbar R B 2000 Rapid and early export of Phaeocystis antarctica blooms in the Ross Sea, Antarctica Nature 404 595–8

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Remy J-G and Letamendia C 2014 LTE Services (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Gheyi R and Naumann D 2012 Formal Methods: Foundations and Applications: 15th Brazilian Symposium, SBMF 2012, Natal, Brazil, September 23-28, 2012. Proceedings vol 7498 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lara M D and Doyen L 2008 Optimal sequential decisions Sustainable Management of Natural Resources: Mathematical Models and Methods Environmental Science and Engineering ed L Doyen (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 107–51

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 New Technique Mimics Animal Senses To Screen For Toxic Chemicals 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 2006 Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes (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]

Miller M W 2010 The Mediterranean Ethiopian: Intellectual discourse and the fixity of myth in classical antiquity Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: 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

[1]

James Barron With Eric Lipton G. S. Bourdain, Crow K and Fabricant F 2001 BOLDFACE NAMES New York Times B2

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