How to format your references using the Applied Catalysis B: Environmental citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 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]

P.A. Lawrence, Rank injustice, Nature 415 (2002) 835–836.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G.J. Hannon, J.J. Rossi, Unlocking the potential of the human genome with RNA interference, Nature 431 (2004) 371–378.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Akbarzadeh, C.-W. Qiu, A.J. Danner, Exploiting design freedom in biaxial dielectrics to enable spatially overlapping optical instruments, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2055.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

V.N. Gamezo, A.M. Khokhlov, E.S. Oran, A.Y. Chtchelkanova, R.O. Rosenberg, Thermonuclear supernovae: simulations of the deflagration stage and their implications, Science 299 (2003) 77–81.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L. Wagner-Martin, A History of American Literature, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

L.I. Grossweiner, The Science of Phototherapy: An Introduction, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Matucha, P. Schröder, Trichloroacetic Acid in the Forest Ecosystem, in: P. Schröder, C.D. Collins (Eds.), Organic Xenobiotics and Plants: From Mode of Action to Ecophysiology, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011: pp. 87–103.

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 Applied Catalysis B: Environmental.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Ignoring Hormones And Sex Is Undermining Clinical Trials, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ignoring-hormones-and-sex-is-undermining-clinical-trials/ (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, Aviation Safety: FAA Action Plan for Chicago O’Hare International Airport, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

O.L. Garraway, A study of the relationship between corporate leaders’ beliefs and the firm’s strategic decisions, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 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

[1]

B. Brantley, Trains of Thought Waiting to Connect in Levittown, New York Times (2016) C1.

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	Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
Abbreviation	Appl. Catal. B
ISSN (print)	0926-3373
Scope	Catalysis Process Chemistry and Technology General Environmental Science