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

Schenk PM (2002) Thickness constraints on the icy shells of the galilean satellites from a comparison of crater shapes. Nature 417:419–421

A journal article with 2 authors

Gfeller A, Farmer EE (2004) Keeping the leaves green above us. Science 306:1515–1516

A journal article with 3 authors

Wilson RI, Turner GC, Laurent G (2004) Transformation of olfactory representations in the Drosophila antennal lobe. Science 303:366–370

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kagawa T, Sakai T, Suetsugu N, et al (2001) Arabidopsis NPL1: a phototropin homolog controlling the chloroplast high-light avoidance response. Science 291:2138–2141

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwarz DR (2014) Reading the European Novel to 1900. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Donnellan B, Helfert M, Kenneally J, et al (2015) New Horizons in Design Science: Broadening the Research Agenda: 10th International Conference, DESRIST 2015, Dublin, Ireland, May 20-22, 2015, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Giannini C, Okazaki H (2009) Nervous System. In: Waters BL (ed) Handbook of Autopsy Practice. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 51–68

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) 2,000-Year-Old Human Skeleton Found On Antikythera Shipwreck. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/2000-year-old-human-skeleton-found-antikythera-shipwreck/. 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 (1996) Reduction in Demonstration Project Funding. 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

Garcia RI (2009) Variable selection for models with missing data. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Vecsey G (2010) Setting a New Standard for a Long-Beleaguered Franchise. New York Times D2

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

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