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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Macilwain, C.: Scientists vs engineers: this time it’s financial. Nature. 467, 885 (2010)

A journal article with 2 authors

Ray, L.B., Gough, N.R.: Orienteering strategies for a signaling maze. Science. 296, 1632–1633 (2002)

A journal article with 3 authors

Akhtar, A., Zink, D., Becker, P.B.: Chromodomains are protein-RNA interaction modules. Nature. 407, 405–409 (2000)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, Y., Ben, T., Zhang, B., Fu, Y., Qiu, S.: Ultrahigh gas storage both at low and high pressures in KOH-activated carbonized porous aromatic frameworks. Sci. Rep. 3, 2420 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown, C.: Fibonacci Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2010)

An edited book

Toyota, N.: Low-Dimensional Molecular Metals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2007)

A chapter in an edited book

Lemaire, F., Ürgüplü, A.: MABSys: Modeling and Analysis of Biological Systems. In: Horimoto, K., Nakatsui, M., and Popov, N. (eds.) Algebraic and Numeric Biology: 4th International Conference, ANB 2010, Hagenberg, Austria, July 31- August 2, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. pp. 57–75. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012)

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

Taub, B.: Having A Baby Changes A Mother’s Brain For Two Years, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/having-a-baby-changes-a-mothers-brain-for-two-years/

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: Tax Systems Modernization: Results of Review of IRS’ March 7, 2000, Expenditure Plan. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2000)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mehlinger, S.: Fault Lines, (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

Hodara, S.: At 100, a Movement Still Astonishes and Provokes, (2016)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain 2010; Ray and Gough 2002).

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

Two authors: (Ray and Gough 2002)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2013)

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