How to format your references using the Catalysis Surveys from Asia citation style

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

Baker M (2010) RNA interference: From tools to therapies. Nature 464:1225

A journal article with 2 authors

Minke B, Peters M (2011) Cell biology. Rhodopsin as thermosensor? Science 331:1272–1273

A journal article with 3 authors

Janasek D, Franzke J, Manz A (2006) Scaling and the design of miniaturized chemical-analysis systems. Nature 442:374–380

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sañudo-Wilhelmy SA, Kustka AB, Gobler CJ, et al (2001) Phosphorus limitation of nitrogen fixation by Trichodesmium in the central Atlantic Ocean. Nature 411:66–69

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morris AE, Geiger G, Fine HA (2011) Handbook on Material and Energy Balance Calculations in Material Processing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Manulis M, Sadeghi A-R, Schneider S (2016) Applied Cryptography and Network Security: 14th International Conference, ACNS 2016, Guildford, UK, June 19-22, 2016. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Bürgermeister M (2012) Innovation Process: Flexible, Open, Non-linear. In: Böhle F, Bürgermeister M, Porschen S (eds) Innovation Management by Promoting the Informal: Artistic, Experience-based, Playful. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 41–62

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 Surveys from Asia.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Three 16 Year Old Girls Win Top Prize At Google Science Fair For Agricultural Research. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/google-science-fair-winners-announced/. 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 (1990) Burden Sharing: Allied Protection of Ships in the Persian Gulf in 1987 and 1988. 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

Malet DS (2009) Foreign fighters: Transnational identity in civil conflicts. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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 (2009) Michael Goldsmith, 58; Raised Awareness of A.L.S. New York Times D9

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 Surveys from Asia
Abbreviation	Catal. Surv. Asia
ISSN (print)	1571-1013
ISSN (online)	1574-9266
Scope	Catalysis General Chemistry