How to format your references using the Catalysis Communications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Catalysis Communications. 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]

D.J. Zarin, Atmospheric science. Carbon from tropical deforestation, Science. 336 (2012) 1518–1519.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B. Noudoost, T. Moore, Control of visual cortical signals by prefrontal dopamine, Nature. 474 (2011) 372–375.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Gerstein, N. Lan, R. Jansen, Proteomics. Integrating interactomes, Science. 295 (2002) 284–287.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Luttrell, S. Halpegamage, J. Tao, A. Kramer, E. Sutter, M. Batzill, Why is anatase a better photocatalyst than rutile?--Model studies on epitaxial TiO2 films, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4043.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Tourlakis, Mathematical Logic, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

U. Heiz, U. Landman, eds., Nanocatalysis, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T. Wang, Y. Zhang, H. Yu, F. Wang, Key Technologies, in: T. Wang, Y. Zhang, H. Yu, F. Wang (Eds.), Advanced Manufacturing Technology in China: A Roadmap to 2050, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 31–87.

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 Catalysis Communications.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, The Weather Channel Shuts Down Breitbart For Misleading Climate Change Article, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-weather-channel-shuts-down-breitbart-for-misleading-climate-change-article/ (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, NASA’s Administrative Review of a Patent Infringement Claim, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Coyle, Pre-Service School Counselor’s Perception of Professional Identity Development During Internship, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2017.

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]

G. Vecsey, Pettitte’s Words And Character Carry Weight, New York Times. (2010) B10.

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	Catalysis Communications
Abbreviation	Catal. Commun.
ISSN (print)	1566-7367
Scope	Catalysis Process Chemistry and Technology General Chemistry

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