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]

Hartwell L 2004 Genetics. Robust interactions Science 303 774–5

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kaufman M T and Churchland A K 2013 Cognitive neuroscience: sensory noise drives bad decisions Nature 496 172–3

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Armstrong A A, Mohideen F and Lima C D 2012 Recognition of SUMO-modified PCNA requires tandem receptor motifs in Srs2 Nature 483 59–63

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Coggan J S, Bartol T M, Esquenazi E, Stiles J R, Lamont S, Martone M E, Berg D K, Ellisman M H and Sejnowski T J 2005 Evidence for ectopic neurotransmission at a neuronal synapse Science 309 446–51

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Storhas W 2013 Bioverfahrensentwicklung (Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA)

An edited book

[1]

Wilczenski F L 2007 A Practical Guide to Service Learning: Strategies for Positive Development in Schools ed S M Coomey (Boston, MA: Springer US)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Koshy K, Stevenson L A, Boonjawat J, Campbell J R, Ebi K L, Lotia H and Zondervan R 2014 Climate and Society Climate in Asia and the Pacific: Security, Society and Sustainability Advances in Global Change Research ed M Manton and L A Stevenson (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands) pp 199–252

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 C 2017 Video: Bear Breaks Into House, Plays Piano Whilst Family Are Out 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 1976 Review of Energy Research and Development Administration’s Requirements for Safety Analysis Reports (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]

Amin R M 2010 Detecting targeted malicious email through supervised classification of persistent threat and recipient oriented features 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]

Vecsey G 2010 On the Streets of New York, Cheers for the World New York Times D3

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