How to format your references using the Plasma Research Express citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Plasma Research Express. 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]

Saltykov B G 2007 Russian science: breaking up is hard to do Nature 449 536–7

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wheeler T and von Braun J 2013 Climate change impacts on global food security Science 341 508–13

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ogata S, Li J and Yip S 2002 Ideal pure shear strength of aluminum and copper Science 298 807–11

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Moore D L, Blackmore M G, Hu Y, Kaestner K H, Bixby J L, Lemmon V P and Goldberg J L 2009 KLF family members regulate intrinsic axon regeneration ability Science 326 298–301

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hopkins D 2013 Reading Paradise Lost (Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Collins L J 2011 RNA Infrastructure and Networks vol 722 (New York, NY: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Cate I P-T, Krolak-Schwerdt S, Glock S and Markova M 2014 Improving Teachers’ Judgments Teachers’ Professional Development: Assessment, Training, and Learning ed S Krolak-Schwerdt, S Glock and M Böhmer (Rotterdam: SensePublishers) pp 45–61

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 Research Express.

Blog post

[1]

Taub B 2016 New Study May Reveal How The Galapagos Islands Became So Biodiverse 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 2002 Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway 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]

Warrick A D 2017 “Deep” South: Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, and Environmental Knowledge, 1800-1974 Doctoral dissertation (Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State 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]

Rothenberg B 2017 Bryans Defeated for Title in ‘Maybe the Last Year’ New York Times SP5

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 Research Express
ISSN (online)	2516-1067
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