How to format your references using the Coatings citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Coatings. 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

Golombek, M.P. Planetary Science. The Surface of Mars: Not Just Dust and Rocks. Science 2003, 300, 2043–2044.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, W.P.; Brudzinski, M.R. Evidence for a Large-Scale Remnant of Subducted Lithosphere beneath Fiji. Science 2001, 292, 2475–2479.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thorpe, S.K.S.; Holder, R.L.; Crompton, R.H. Origin of Human Bipedalism as an Adaptation for Locomotion on Flexible Branches. Science 2007, 316, 1328–1331.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mao, J.-H.; Kim, I.-J.; Wu, D.; Climent, J.; Kang, H.C.; DelRosario, R.; Balmain, A. FBXW7 Targets MTOR for Degradation and Cooperates with PTEN in Tumor Suppression. Science 2008, 321, 1499–1502.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deschamps, J.-P.; Bioul, G.J.A.; Sutter, G.D. Synthesis of Arithmetic Circuits; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2005; ISBN 9780471741428.

An edited book

Induced Plant Resistance to Herbivory; Schaller, A., Ed.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2008; ISBN 9781402081811.

A chapter in an edited book

Ghosh, A.; Corves, B. Design of Micromechanisms. In Introduction to Micromechanisms and Microactuators; Corves, B., Ed.; Mechanisms and Machine Science; Springer India: New Delhi, 2015; pp. 57–79 ISBN 9788132221432.

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 Coatings.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Five Ways Science Can Help You Raise Healthy Children Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/five-ways-science-can-help-you-raise-healthy-children/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Highway Infrastructure: FHWA’s Model for Estimating Highway Needs Has Been Modified for State-Level Planning; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2001;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Boakyewa, O.A. Nana Oparebea and the Akonnedi Shrine: Cultural, Religious and Global Agents. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University: Bloomington, IN, 2014.

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

Walsh, M.W. Walmart Sues Puerto Rico, Claiming an Unfair and Onerous Tax Burden. New York Times 2016, B1.

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	Coatings
ISSN (online)	2079-6412
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