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]

Victora G D 2013 Science & SciLifeLab Prize. Stop, go, and evolve Science 342 1186

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Matouschek A and Finley D 2012 Cell biology. An ancient portal to proteolysis Science 337 813–4

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Parker J S, Roe S M and Barford D 2005 Structural insights into mRNA recognition from a PIWI domain-siRNA guide complex Nature 434 663–6

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Bethlem H L, Berden G, Crompvoets F M, Jongma R T, van Roij AJ and Meijer G 2000 Electrostatic trapping of ammonia molecules Nature 406 491–4

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Rhee M Y 2013 Wireless Mobile Internet Security (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Maulik N and Karagiannis T 2014 Molecular mechanisms and physiology of disease: Implications for Epigenetics and Health (New York, NY: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Wiśniewski T and Korytkowski P 2011 Identification of an Assessment Model for Evaluating Performance of a Manufacturing System Based on Experts Opinions Semantic Methods for Knowledge Management and Communication Studies in Computational Intelligence ed R Katarzyniak, T-F Chiu, C-F Hong and N T Nguyen (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 35–45

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]

Luntz S 2015 Superfast Raindrops Seem To Break The Laws Of Physics 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 1991 Railroad Safety: Weaknesses in FRA’s Safety Program (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]

Esmaili G 2006 Application of Advanced Power Electronics in Renewable Energy Sources and Hybrid Generating Systems Doctoral dissertation (Columbus, OH: Ohio 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]

Qiu L 2017 Misleading Statements From President’s Cabinet New York Times A13

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