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

VanNimwegen, R.: Award-winning commitment. Nature. 447, 610 (2007)

A journal article with 2 authors

Heinz, J., Idsardi, W.: Psychology. Sentence and word complexity. Science. 333, 295–297 (2011)

A journal article with 3 authors

Kareiva, P., Chang, A., Marvier, M.: Environmental economics. Development and conservation goals in World Bank projects. Science. 321, 1638–1639 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rhyee, J.-S., Lee, K.H., Lee, S.M., Cho, E., Kim, S.I., Lee, E., Kwon, Y.S., Shim, J.H., Kotliar, G.: Peierls distortion as a route to high thermoelectric performance in In(4)Se(3-delta) crystals. Nature. 459, 965–968 (2009)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wootton, R.J., Smith, C.: Reproductive Biology of Teleost Fishes. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2014)

An edited book

Tunnicliffe, S.D., Scheersoi, A. eds: Natural History Dioramas: History, Construction and Educational Role. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Stafford, S.: ‘Pester Them with Letters’: Using Darwin’s Correspondence in the Classroom. In: Boulter, C.J., Reiss, M.J., and Sanders, D.L. (eds.) Darwin-Inspired Learning. pp. 35–44. SensePublishers, Rotterdam (2015)

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

Fang, J.: Two New Islands Appear in the Red Sea After Volcanic Eruptions, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/two-new-islands-appeared-red-sea-after-volcanic-eruptions/

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: Telecommunications: Financial Information on 16 Telephone and Cable Companies. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1994)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Clavio, G.: Uses and gratifications of Internet collegiate sport message board users, (2008)

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.: Advice, and a Shop, for the Sleep-Deprived, (2016)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (VanNimwegen 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Heinz and Idsardi 2011; VanNimwegen 2007).

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

Two authors: (Heinz and Idsardi 2011)
Three or more authors: (Rhyee et al. 2009)

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