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

Benton, M.J.: Evolution. How birds became birds. Science. 345, 508–509 (2014)

A journal article with 2 authors

Hauser, M.D., Bever, T.: Behavior. A biolinguistic agenda. Science. 322, 1057–1059 (2008)

A journal article with 3 authors

Jönsson, T.J., Johnson, L.C., Lowther, W.T.: Structure of the sulphiredoxin-peroxiredoxin complex reveals an essential repair embrace. Nature. 451, 98–101 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kienast, M., Steinke, S., Stattegger, K., Calvert, S.E.: Synchronous tropical South China Sea SST change and Greenland warming during deglaciation. Science. 291, 2132–2134 (2001)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

West, B.J., Griffin, L.A.: Biodynamics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2005)

An edited book

Zayas, V., Hazan, C. eds: Bases of Adult Attachment: Linking Brain, Mind and Behavior. Springer, New York, NY (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Armando, A., Bonacina, M.P., Ranise, S., Schulz, S.: On a Rewriting Approach to Satisfiability Procedures: Extension, Combination of Theories and an Experimental Appraisal. In: Gramlich, B. (ed.) Frontiers of Combining Systems: 5th International Workshop, FroCoS 2005, Vienna, Austria, September 19-21, 2005. Proceedings. pp. 65–80. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2005)

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

Hamilton, K.: Think Swearing Isn’t Big Or Clever? Think Again, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/think-swearing-isnt-big-or-clever-think-again/

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: Information Technology: Comments on Proposed OMB Guidance for Implementing the Government Paperwork Elimination Act. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1999)

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

Vecsey, G.: With Memories Entrenched, a Hallowed Site Plows Forward, (2014)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Benton 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Benton 2014; Hauser and Bever 2008).

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

Two authors: (Hauser and Bever 2008)
Three or more authors: (Kienast et al. 2001)

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