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]

Balter M. EUROPEAN SCIENCE POLICY: France Rebels Against Gene-Patenting Law. Science 2000;288:2115a.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Turtle EP, Pierazzo E. Thickness of a Europan ice shell from impact crater simulations. Science 2001;294:1326–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Waghmare PR, Gunda NSK, Mitra SK. Under-water superoleophobicity of fish scales. Sci Rep 2014;4:7454.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Yildiz A, Tomishige M, Vale RD, Selvin PR. Kinesin walks hand-over-hand. Science 2004;303:676–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Pardoe I. Applied Regression Modeling. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Castano-Bernard R, Catanese F, Kontsevich M, Pantev T, Soibelman Y, Zharkov I, editors. Homological Mirror Symmetry and Tropical Geometry. vol. 15. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Mubarok I, Lee K, Lee S, Lee H. Lightweight Resource Management for DDoS Traffic Isolation in a Cloud Environment. In: Cuppens-Boulahia N, Cuppens F, Jajodia S, Abou El Kalam A, Sans T, editors. ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection: 29th IFIP TC 11 International Conference, SEC 2014, Marrakech, Morocco, June 2-4, 2014. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014, p. 44–51.

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 E. Why Does Cilantro Taste Like Soap to Some People? IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-does-cilantro-taste-soap-some-people/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Transportation Security: TSA Has Made Progress in Implementing the Transportation Worker Identification Credential Program, but Challenges Remain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Fortenbery NR. Regulation of Natural Killer Cells: SHIP-1, 2B4, and Immunomodulation by Lenalidomide. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 2012.

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]

Greenhouse L. Justice Recalls Treats Laced With Poison. New York Times 2006:A29.

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