How to format your references using the Adsorption citation style

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

Gough, D.: Astronomy. How oblate is the Sun? Science. 337, 1611–1612 (2012)

A journal article with 2 authors

Brucker, R.M., Bordenstein, S.R.: The hologenomic basis of speciation: gut bacteria cause hybrid lethality in the genus Nasonia. Science. 341, 667–669 (2013)

A journal article with 3 authors

Amodeo, G.A., Rudolph, M.J., Tong, L.: Crystal structure of the heterotrimer core of Saccharomyces cerevisiae AMPK homologue SNF1. Nature. 449, 492–495 (2007)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Batista, L.F.Z., Pech, M.F., Zhong, F.L., Nguyen, H.N., Xie, K.T., Zaug, A.J., Crary, S.M., Choi, J., Sebastiano, V., Cherry, A., Giri, N., Wernig, M., Alter, B.P., Cech, T.R., Savage, S.A., Reijo Pera, R.A., Artandi, S.E.: Telomere shortening and loss of self-renewal in dyskeratosis congenita induced pluripotent stem cells. Nature. 474, 399–402 (2011)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simon, L., Ospina, J.: Closed-Form Solutions for Drug Transport through Controlled-Release Devices in Two and Three Dimensions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ (2015)

An edited book

Murty, M.R.: Transcendental Numbers. Springer, New York, NY (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Lin, C.Y.-Y., Chen, J.: Two-Stage Model of Societal Innovation. In: Chen, J. (ed.) The Impact of Societal and Social Innovation: A Case-Based Approach. pp. 51–62. Springer, Singapore (2016)

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 Adsorption.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: There’s No Evidence Human Pheromones Exist – No Matter What You Find For Sale Online, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/there-s-no-evidence-human-pheromones-exist-no-matter-what-you-find-sale-online/

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: Improved Planning--A Must Before a Department-Wide Automatic Data Processing System Is Acquired for the Department of Agriculture. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1975)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Camaya, C.: Teachers’ perceptions of social skills instruction for children with autism spectrum disorders, (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

Barron, J.: Juliana Koo, 111; Wrote Life Story at 104, (2017)

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Gough 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Brucker and Bordenstein 2013; Gough 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Brucker and Bordenstein 2013)
Three or more authors: (Batista et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Adsorption
Abbreviation	Adsorption (Boston)
ISSN (print)	0929-5607
ISSN (online)	1572-8757
Scope	General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry Surfaces and Interfaces