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]

Service R F 2000 CHEMISTRY: Crystals Branch Out Into Exotic Shapes Science 290 1875

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bodner S and Paine C 2000 When peer review fails Nature 407 129–30

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bobrov K, Mayne A J and Dujardin G 2001 Atomic-scale imaging of insulating diamond through resonant electron injection Nature 413 616–9

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Shao X, Lu W, Zhang R and Pan F 2013 Enhanced photocatalytic activity of TiO₂-C hybrid aerogels for methylene blue degradation Sci. Rep. 3 3018

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Gordon J 2009 Training Camp (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Cho H-S, Kim T-H, Mohammed S, Adeli H, Oh M-K and Lee K-W 2012 Green and Smart Technology with Sensor Applications: International Conferences, GST and SIA 2012, Jeju Island, Korea, November 28-December 2, 2012. Proceedings vol 338 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Vacano B von and Motzkus M 2010 Photonic Integration Enables Single-Beam Nonlinear Spectroscopy for Microscopy and Microanalytics Extreme Photonics & Applications NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics ed T J Hall, S V Gaponenko and S A Paredes (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands) pp 57–73

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]

Andrew E 2015 Biology’s Holy Grail: The Species And Its Controversial Recent History 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 Financial Literacy and Education Commission: Further Progress Needed to Ensure an Effective National Strategy (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]

Le J T 2013 Support group for women who experience perinatal loss: A grant proposal 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]

Murphy M J O 2010 A Game That Turned Nixon Into a Factoid New York Times WK2

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