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

Buckingham S (2010) Call in the women. Nature 468:502

A journal article with 2 authors

Fier PS, Hartwig JF (2013) Selective C-H fluorination of pyridines and diazines inspired by a classic amination reaction. Science 342:956–960

A journal article with 3 authors

Nimmerjahn A, Kirchhoff F, Helmchen F (2005) Resting microglial cells are highly dynamic surveillants of brain parenchyma in vivo. Science 308:1314–1318

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Litbarg NO, Vujicic S, Setty S, et al (2013) A novel model of surgical injury in adult rat kidney: a “pouch model.” Sci Rep 3:2890

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gleeson K (2008) The Personal Efficiency Program. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Boughanem M, Berrut C, Mothe J, Soule-Dupuy C (2009) Advances in Information Retrieval: 31th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2009, Toulouse, France, April 6-9, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Horn L-C (2006) Pathogenesis of Histological Types of Endometrial Cancer. In: Lewis MA, Dietel M, Scriba PC, Raff WK (eds) Biology und Epidemiology of Hormone Replacement Therapy: Discussions on Post-Menopausal Health. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 55–62

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

Andrew E (2015) Robotic Octopus Arm Could Revolutionize Surgery. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/robotic-octopus-arm-will-revolutionize-surgery/. 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 (1999) Medicaid: Questionable Practices Boost Federal Payments for School-Based Services. 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

Wahl SE (2008) Registered nurse preceptorship orientation: A study of the relationship between burnout rates of new graduates and number of preceptors worked with in the clinical orientation phase. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Walsh MW (2012) Municipal Bond Rule Mired in Legislative Limbo. New York Times B1

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

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