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

Armbrust EV (2009) The life of diatoms in the world’s oceans. Nature 459:185–192

A journal article with 2 authors

Sussman MR, Phillips GN Jr (2009) Plant science. How plant cells go to sleep for a long, long time. Science 326:1356–1357

A journal article with 3 authors

Wiedemann N, Meisinger C, Pfanner N (2009) Cell biology. Connecting organelles. Science 325:403–404

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Martrat B, Grimalt JO, Shackleton NJ, et al (2007) Four climate cycles of recurring deep and surface water destabilizations on the Iberian margin. Science 317:502–507

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety (2008) Guidelines for Chemical Transportation Safety, Security, and Risk Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Mahmood Z, Hill R (2011) Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Norman RA, Young EM (2014) Dermatitis Herpetiformis. In: Young EM Jr (ed) Atlas of Geriatric Dermatology. Springer, London, pp 43–46

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) Grand Canyon Gray Wolf May Have Been Shot Dead. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/grand-canyon-gray-wolf-may-have-been-shot-dead/. 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 (2002) Human Services Integration: Results of a GAO Cosponsored Conference on Modernizing Information Systems. 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

Salifu A (2008) Names that prick: Royal praise names in Dagbon, northern Ghana. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana 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

Kenigsberg B (2017) Behemoth. New York Times C10

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