How to format your references using the Plasma Science and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Plasma Science and Technology. 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	Download the output style file
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]

Jonietz E 2011 Designing smarter cancer prevention trials Nature 471 S20-1

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wang W and Yuan D 2014 Mesoporous carbon originated from non-permanent porous MOFs for gas storage and CO2/CH4 separation Sci. Rep. 4 5711

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Loudon J C, Mathur N D and Midgley P A 2002 Charge-ordered ferromagnetic phase in La(0.5)Ca(0.5)MnO3 Nature 420 797–800

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Yu Z, Yang J, Amalfitano S, Yu X and Liu L 2014 Effects of water stratification and mixing on microbial community structure in a subtropical deep reservoir Sci. Rep. 4 5821

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Knudsen S 2005 A Biologist’s Guide to Analysis of DNA Microarray Data (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Bessis N, Xhafa F, Varvarigou D, Hill R and Li M 2013 Internet of Things and Inter-cooperative Computational Technologies for Collective Intelligence vol 460 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sanchez A R 2010 The Technical Support Colleague Technical Support Essentials: Advice You Can Use to Succeed in Technical Support ed J Pepper, C Andres, S Anglin, M Beckner, E Buckingham, G Cornell, J Gennick, J Hassell, M Lowman, M Moodie, D Parkes, F Pohlmann, D Pundick, B Renow-Clarke, D Shakeshaft, M Wade, T Welsh, J Markham and K Stence (Berkeley, CA: Apress) pp 95–117

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 Science and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A 2016 Understanding Dark Matter Using Supercomputers 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 2013 Preliminary Results of Work on FAA Facility Conditions and Workplace Safety (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]

Zuckerman T 2017 The Effect of Communication Between Parents and their Emerging Adult Offspring on Depression and Career Search Self-efficacy 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]

Wagner J 2016 Custom Cleats for the Polished Player New York Times D6

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 Science and Technology
Abbreviation	Plasma Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	1009-0630
Scope	Condensed Matter Physics