How to format your references using the Plasmonics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Plasmonics. 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

Brumfiel G (2003) Cosmology: welcome to the real world. Nature 426:751

A journal article with 2 authors

Gillespie RG, Roderick GK (2014) Evolution: Geology and climate drive diversification. Nature 509:297–298

A journal article with 3 authors

Yamamoto-Kawai M, Carmack E, McLaughlin F (2006) Nitrogen balance and Arctic throughflow. Nature 443:43

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bartels L, Wang F, Möller D, et al (2004) Real-space observation of molecular motion induced by femtosecond laser pulses. Science 305:648–651

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carne EB (2011) Connections for the Digital Age. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Mahmoud MS (2015) Control and Optimization of Distributed Generation Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Das S, Pandey DN, Sukavanam N (2015) Approximation of Solutions of a Stochastic Differential Equation. In: Agrawal PN, Mohapatra RN, Singh U, Srivastava HM (eds) Mathematical Analysis and its Applications: Roorkee, India, December 2014. Springer India, New Delhi, pp 51–62

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 Plasmonics.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2017) SpaceX Is Trying To Find The Perfect Landing Site For Its Upcoming Mars Mission. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/space-is-trying-to-find-the-perfect-landing-site-for-its-upcoming-mars-mission/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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

Government Accountability Office (2004) Pipeline Safety: Preliminary Information on the Office of Pipeline Safety’s Enforcement Activities. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Lieberman V (2012) One yard shy of empowerment: Cinematic portrayals of female athletes. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic 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

Hodara S (2016) Affordability in a Bucolic Setting. New York Times RE17

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	Plasmonics
Abbreviation	Plasmonics
ISSN (print)	1557-1955
ISSN (online)	1557-1963
Scope	Biochemistry Biophysics Biotechnology