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

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

Smith D R 2005 Applied physics. How to build a superlens Science 308 502–3

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Berry A and Browne J 2008 The other beetle-hunter Nature 453 1188–90

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Serizawa T, Hamada K-I and Akashi M 2004 Polymerization within a molecular-scale stereoregular template Nature 429 52–5

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Bjedov I, Tenaillon O, Gérard B, Souza V, Denamur E, Radman M, Taddei F and Matic I 2003 Stress-induced mutagenesis in bacteria Science 300 1404–9

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

American Counseling Association 2015 The ACA Encyclopedia of Counseling (Alexandria, VA, USA: American Counseling Association)

An edited book

[1]

Casares-Giner V, Manzoni P and Pont A 2011 NETWORKING 2011 Workshops: International IFIP TC 6 Workshops, PE-CRN, NC-Pro, WCNS, and SUNSET 2011, Held at NETWORKING 2011, Valencia, Spain, May 13, 2011, Revised Selected Papers vol 6827 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Harris G J 2010 Keynote Address: The 3D Imaging Service at Massachusetts General Hospital: 11 Years Experience Life System Modeling and Intelligent Computing: International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation, LSMS 2010, and International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Energy and Environment, ICSEE 2010, Wuxi, China, September 17-20, 2010. Proceedings, Part III Lecture Notes in Computer Science ed K Li, L Jia, X Sun, M Fei and G W Irwin (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 27–32

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 Sources Science and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K 2016 Getting Serious About Funny: Psychologists See Humor As A Character Strength 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 2011 Training Necessary to Address Data Reliability Issues in NASA Agreement Database and to Minimize Potential Competition with Commercial Sector (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

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Dusso A P 2010 The psychology of institutional development: How parties’ willingness to accept risk affects the districts they draw and the seats they win 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]

Sisario B 2017 Tommy LiPuma, 80, a Record Producer and Five-Time Grammy Award Winner New York Times B19

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 Sources Science and Technology
Abbreviation	Plasma Sources Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0963-0252
ISSN (online)	1361-6595
Scope	Condensed Matter Physics