How to format your references using the Publications citation style

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

Dyson, P.J. Journal Club. A Chemist Highlights Promising Organometallic Drugs. Nature 2009, 458, 389.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tatar, M.; Rand, D.M. Aging. Dietary Advice on Q. Science 2002, 295, 54–55.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shaw, S.L.; Kamyar, R.; Ehrhardt, D.W. Sustained Microtubule Treadmilling in Arabidopsis Cortical Arrays. Science 2003, 300, 1715–1718.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Singh, P.; Sreenivasan, S.; Szymanski, B.K.; Korniss, G. Threshold-Limited Spreading in Social Networks with Multiple Initiators. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2330.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

De Martini, D. Success Probability Estimation with Applications to Clinical Trials; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2013; ISBN 9781118548516.

An edited book

Advances on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems: 9th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems; Demazeau, Y., Pěchoucěk, M., Corchado, J.M., Pérez, J.B., Eds.; Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011; Vol. 88; ISBN 9783642198748.

A chapter in an edited book

Apel, D.; Liu, W.; Bindiganavile, V. Simulation of the Effects of Thermo Insulating Shotcrete on the Energy Consumption of Ventilation and Cooling Systems at Deep Underground Mines. In Mine Planning and Equipment Selection: Proceedings of the 22nd MPES Conference, Dresden, Germany, 14th – 19th October 2013; Drebenstedt, C., Singhal, R., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; pp. 37–42 ISBN 9783319026770.

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 Publications.

Blog post

Hale, T. There’s Been An Actual Snake On A Plane Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/theres-been-an-actual-snake-on-a-plane/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Technology Transfer: Federal Laboratory Consortium Should Increase Communication with Potential Customers to Improve Initiatives; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2014;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Barnard, S. Police Officers’ Attitudes about Rape Victims. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2015.

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

Poniewozik, J. The Unending Struggle for Gay Rights. New York Times 2017, C2.

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	Publications
ISSN (online)	2304-6775
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