How to format your references using the Resources citation style

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

Dwek, E. Astronomy. The Supernova Origin of Interstellar Dust. Science 2006, 313, 178–180.

A journal article with 2 authors

Peale, S.J.; Lee, M.H. A Primordial Origin of the Laplace Relation among the Galilean Satellites. Science 2002, 298, 593–597.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thorpe, S.K.S.; Holder, R.L.; Crompton, R.H. Origin of Human Bipedalism as an Adaptation for Locomotion on Flexible Branches. Science 2007, 316, 1328–1331.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wu, P.; Jiang, T.-X.; Suksaweang, S.; Widelitz, R.B.; Chuong, C.-M. Molecular Shaping of the Beak. Science 2004, 305, 1465–1466.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goddard Blythe, S. Assessing Neuromotor Readiness for Learning; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2012; ISBN 9781119945017.

An edited book

Wang, D. Haptic Rendering for Simulation of Fine Manipulation; Xiao, J., Zhang, Y., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014; ISBN 9783662449486.

A chapter in an edited book

Kaur, H.; Kahlon, K.S.; Virk, R.S. Migration of Agents in Artificial Agent Societies: Framework and State-of-the-Art. In Computational Intelligence in Data Mining - Volume 3: Proceedings of the International Conference on CIDM, 20-21 December 2014; Jain, L.C., Behera, H.S., Mandal, J.K., Mohapatra, D.P., Eds.; Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies; Springer India: New Delhi, 2015; pp. 37–51 ISBN 9788132222019.

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 Resources.

Blog post

Luntz, S. Spitfire Insects Need Leaders and Followers (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 Methodology Transfer Paper 3; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1982;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rivera, C. The Role of Privacy, Brand Labeling, and Cost on Condom Procurement: Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Assess a University Policy. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana: Lafayette, LA, 2017.

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

Koblin, J. Two Asian-American Actors in ‘Hawaii Five-0’ Depart. New York Times 2017, B5.

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	Resources
ISSN (online)	2079-9276
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