How to format your references using the Catalysis Letters citation style

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

Sapolsky RM (2011) Behavior. Sympathy for the CEO. Science 333:293–294

A journal article with 2 authors

Hartley RR, Behringer RP (2003) Logarithmic rate dependence of force networks in sheared granular materials. Nature 421:928–931

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee I-H, Shin S, Choi T-L (2015) Materials science. Building supermicelles from simple polymers. Science 347:1310–1311

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Vanlandewijck M, He L, Mäe MA, et al (2018) Author Correction: A molecular atlas of cell types and zonation in the brain vasculature. Nature 560:E3

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson JB, Johannesson R (2005) Understanding Information Transmission. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Maroldi R, Nicolai P (2005) Imaging in Treatment Planning for Sinonasal Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Huber L, Range F, Virányi Z (2014) Dog Imitation and Its Possible Origins. In: Horowitz A (ed) Domestic Dog Cognition and Behavior: The Scientific Study of Canis familiaris. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 79–100

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 Letters.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) Newly Discovered Fossils Provide Snapshot Of Life On Earth Before The Oxygen Crisis. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1988) Defaulted Student Loans: Preliminary Analysis of Student Loan Borrowers and Defaulters. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bonin C (2010) Spatial and temporal characteristics of electromagnetic activity in the brain prior to reaches to visual targets. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Apuzzo M, Risen J (2016) Plan to Revive Waterboarding Faces Obstacles. New York Times A1

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 Letters
Abbreviation	Catal. Letters
ISSN (print)	1011-372X
ISSN (online)	1572-879X
Scope	Catalysis General Chemistry