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

Parkins, W.E.: Energy. Fusion power: will it ever come? Science. 311, 1380 (2006)

A journal article with 2 authors

Parisien, M., Major, F.: The MC-Fold and MC-Sym pipeline infers RNA structure from sequence data. Nature. 452, 51–55 (2008)

A journal article with 3 authors

Dhara, S., Mele, E.J., Agarwal, R.: APPLIED OPTICS. Voltage-tunable circular photogalvanic effect in silicon nanowires. Science. 349, 726–729 (2015)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Strom, R.G., Malhotra, R., Ito, T., Yoshida, F., Kring, D.A.: The origin of planetary impactors in the inner solar system. Science. 309, 1847–1850 (2005)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ronen, T.: The Positive Power of Imagery. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2011)

An edited book

Stix, J. ed: The Arithmetic of Fundamental Groups: PIA 2010. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Poggi, A., Lembo, D., Calvanese, D., De Giacomo, G., Lenzerini, M., Rosati, R.: Linking Data to Ontologies. In: Spaccapietra, S. (ed.) Journal on Data Semantics X. pp. 133–173. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2008)

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.: Is There A Moral Centre In Our Brain?, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/there-moral-centre-our-brain/

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: Need for Improved Controls for Identifying and Correcting Safety Defects on Light Aircraft. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1973)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Goldstein, T.W.: Writing in red: The East German Writers Union and the role of literary intellectuals in the German Democratic Republic, 1971-90, (2010)

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

Hyduk, J.: Looking to Take a City Where Grubb and Speed Never Did, (2016)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Parkins 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Parisien and Major 2008; Parkins 2006).

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

Two authors: (Parisien and Major 2008)
Three or more authors: (Strom et al. 2005)

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