How to format your references using the Science Bulletin citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Science Bulletin. 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	Download the output style file
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]

Lieberman P. Neuroscience. Synapses, language, and being human. Science 2013;342:944–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Outten CE, O’Halloran TV. Femtomolar sensitivity of metalloregulatory proteins controlling zinc homeostasis. Science 2001;292:2488–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hu Z-X, Lan H, Ji W. Role of the dispersion force in modeling the interfacial properties of molecule-metal interfaces: adsorption of thiophene on copper surfaces. Sci Rep 2014;4:5036.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Newton M, Fitzgerald S, Rose RR, Adams PW, Tesch SD, Sessions J, et al. Comment on “Post-wildfire logging hinders regeneration and increases fire risk.” Science 2006;313:615; author reply 615.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

van Bosse JG. Signaling in Telecommunication Networks. New York, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2002.

An edited book

[1]

Geer G van der, Moonen B, Schoof R, editors. Number Fields and Function Fields—Two Parallel Worlds. vol. 239. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Takuma T, Techaumnat B. Electric Field Behavior for the Common Contact of Three Dielectrics. In: Techaumnat B, editor. Electric Fields in Composite Dielectrics and their Applications, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010, p. 61–70.

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 Science Bulletin.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. What’s The Number One Reason People Die Early in Your Country? IFLScience 2015.

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. Airport Passenger Screening: Preliminary Observations on Progress Made and Challenges Remaining. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Colna KE. Latitudinal Position and Trends of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and its Relationship with Upwelling in the Southern Caribbean Sea and Global Climate Indices. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 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

[1]

Rothenberg B. Hyperactive Latvian ‘Not Afraid of Anything’ Makes Final. New York Times 2017:B11.

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	Science Bulletin
Abbreviation	Sci. Bull. (Beijing)
ISSN (print)	2095-9273
Scope	Multidisciplinary