How to format your references using the Advances in Colloid and Interface Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Colloid and Interface Science. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

Lea DW. Oceans. Not so permanent El Niño. Science 2014;344:52–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Morandi B, Carreira EM. Iron-catalyzed cyclopropanation in 6 M KOH with in situ generation of diazomethane. Science 2012;335:1471–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Séguin B, Singer PA, Daar AS. Science community: scientific diasporas. Science 2006;312:1602–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Byrne JA, Pedersen DA, Clepper LL, Nelson M, Sanger WG, Gokhale S, et al. Producing primate embryonic stem cells by somatic cell nuclear transfer. Nature 2007;450:497–502.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Donham KJ, Thelin A. Agricultural Medicine. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Matoušek V, Mautner P, editors. Text, Speech and Dialogue: 10th International Conference, TSD 2007, Pilsen, Czech Republic, September 3-7, 2007. Proceedings. vol. 4629. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Campbell-Kelly M. From Theory to Practice: The Invention of Programming, 1947-51. In: Jones CB, Lloyd JL, editors. Dependable and Historic Computing: Essays Dedicated to Brian Randell on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011, p. 23–37.

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 Advances in Colloid and Interface Science.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A. An Underground Instrument Will Measure How Much Earth Drags Spacetime. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/an-underground-instrument-will-measure-how-much-earth-drags-spacetime/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. FAA Budget: Important Challenges Affecting Aviation Safety, Capacity, and Efficiency. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Jones JD. Parental attachment style: Links with parent and adolescent perceptions of parenting and observed secure base behaviors. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 2013.

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

[1]

Dinardo K. Kevin Carr Will Stop Running When He Circles the World. New York Times 2014:TR3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Advances in Colloid and Interface Science
Abbreviation	Adv. Colloid Interface Sci.
ISSN (print)	0001-8686
Scope	Colloid and Surface Chemistry Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Surfaces and Interfaces