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

Ruiz, J. The Stability against Freezing of an Internal Liquid-Water Ocean in Callisto. Nature 2001, 412, 409–411.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ding, T.; Schloss, P.D. Dynamics and Associations of Microbial Community Types across the Human Body. Nature 2014, 509, 357–360.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gaillard, F.; Scaillet, B.; Arndt, N.T. Atmospheric Oxygenation Caused by a Change in Volcanic Degassing Pressure. Nature 2011, 478, 229–232.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhu, Y.; Zhu, L.-N.; Guo, R.; Cui, H.-J.; Ye, S.; Fang, Q. Nanoliter-Scale Protein Crystallization and Screening with a Microfluidic Droplet Robot. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5046.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gutiérrez, Í.; Meléndez, J.; Hernández, E. Design and Characterization of Integrated Varactors for RF Applications; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2007; ISBN 9780470035924.

An edited book

Art’s Teachings, Teaching’s Art: Philosophical, Critical and Educational Musings; Lewis, T., Laverty, M., Eds.; Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education; 1st ed. 2015.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2015; Vol. 8; ISBN 9789401771900.

A chapter in an edited book

Huang, Z.; Leighton, G. Interferometry for Piezoelectric Materials and Thin Films. In Characterisation of Ferroelectric Bulk Materials and Thin Films; Cain, M.G., Ed.; Springer Series in Measurement Science and Technology; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2014; pp. 87–113 ISBN 9781402093104.

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

Davis, J. AIDS Epidemic In Australia Declared “Over” By Experts Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/aids-epidemic-in-australia-declared-over-by-experts/ (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 Direct Student Loans: Selected Characteristics of Participating Schools; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1995;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rose, L. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: An Exploration From Science to Soul. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute: Carpinteria, CA, 2012.

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

Fernandez, M.; Fausset, R. A Limitless City, Now Envisioning New Limitations. New York Times 2017, A1.

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
Scope