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

Sarewitz D (2015) CRISPR: Science can’t solve it. Nature 522:413–414

A journal article with 2 authors

Hodas NO, Lerman K (2014) The simple rules of social contagion. Sci Rep 4:4343

A journal article with 3 authors

Gruber N, Keeling CD, Bates NR (2002) Interannual variability in the North Atlantic Ocean carbon sink. Science 298:2374–2378

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Nicewarner-Pena SR, Freeman RG, Reiss BD, et al (2001) Submicrometer metallic barcodes. Science 294:137–141

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matte GS (2015) Perfusion for Congenital Heart Surgery. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Reddy GV (2016) Recovering Biodiversity in Indian Forests. Springer, Singapore

A chapter in an edited book

Keramidas G, Xekalakis P, Kaxiras S (2007) Applying Decay to Reduce Dynamic Power in Set-Associative Caches. In: Bosschere KD, Kaeli D, Stenström P, et al (eds) High Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers: Second International Conference, HiPEAC 2007, Ghent, Belgium, January 28-30, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 38–53

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

Hale T (2015) Which Countries Consume The Most Antidepressants? 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 (1990) FAA Procurement: Competition for Major Data-Processing Project Was Unjustifiably Limited. 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

Nepal RM (2006) Class II MHC Function in Macrophages and Mice Infected with Mycobacterium. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State 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

Billard M (2010) ‘Jersey’ Seems to Be the Word. New York Times E5

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