How to format your references using the Catalysis Today citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Catalysis Today. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

V. Bromm, Astronomy. From darkness to light, Science 317 (2007) 1511–1512.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Boetius, S. Joye, Ecology. Thriving in salt, Science 324 (2009) 1523–1525.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Gerstein, N. Lan, R. Jansen, Proteomics. Integrating interactomes, Science 295 (2002) 284–287.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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R. Babazadeh, T. Furukawa, S. Hohmann, K. Furukawa, Rewiring yeast osmostress signalling through the MAPK network reveals essential and non-essential roles of Hog1 in osmoadaptation, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4697.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Schwartz, Rethinking Pragmatism, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

F. Moukalled, The Finite Volume Method in Computational Fluid Dynamics: An Advanced Introduction with OpenFOAM® and Matlab, 1st ed. 2015, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Chaloupek, Emancipation of the Peasantry in Lower Austria: The Economists’ Views, the Role of the Estates, and the Revolution of 1848, in: J.G. Backhaus (Ed.), The Liberation of the Serfs: The Economics of Unfree Labor, Springer, New York, NY, 2012: pp. 19–31.

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 Today.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Man Fiddles On His Violin During His Own Brain Surgery, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/man-fiddles-his-violin-during-his-own-brain-surgery/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Comments on Use of Funds from Vending Machines, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1954.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T.L. Lewis, Quantitative approach to technical performance measurement and technical risk analysis utilizing Bayesian methods and Monte Carlo simulation, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2010.

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

[1]

S. Kishkovsky, With Orthodoxy’s Revival in Russia, Religious Media Also Rise, New York Times (2008) B8.

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 Today
Abbreviation	Catal. Today
ISSN (print)	0920-5861
Scope	Catalysis General Chemistry