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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Fitch, T. Journal Club. A Cognitive Biologist Foresees Breakthroughs in Understanding Vocal Learning. Nature 2010, 466, 163.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eaves, A.A.; Palmer, A.R. Reproduction: Widespread Cloning in Echinoderm Larvae. Nature 2003, 425, 146.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, A.C.Y.; Petruccione, F.; Koch, J. Perturbative Approach to Markovian Open Quantum Systems. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4887.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nakanishi, Y.; Lu, B.; Gerard, C.; Iwasaki, A. CD8(+) T Lymphocyte Mobilization to Virus-Infected Tissue Requires CD4(+) T-Cell Help. Nature 2009, 462, 510–513.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kobilinsky, L.; Liotti, T.F.; Oeser-Sweat, J. DNA: Forensic and Legal Applications; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2004; ISBN 9780471681915.

An edited book

Computational Methods to Study the Structure and Dynamics of Biomolecules and Biomolecular Processes: From Bioinformatics to Molecular Quantum Mechanics; Liwo, A., Ed.; Springer Series in Bio-/Neuroinformatics; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014; Vol. 1; ISBN 9783642285530.

A chapter in an edited book

Merz, C. Incubating Micro Enterprises in Rural South Africa – The Use Case of Virtual Buying Cooperatives. In ICT for the Next Five Billion People: Information and Communication for Sustainable Development; Picot, A., Lorenz, J., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010; pp. 35–45 ISBN 9783642122248.

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. Controversial Stem Cell Paper Set To Be Withdrawn From Nature Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/controversial-stem-cell-paper-set-be-withdrawn-nature/ (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 Chief Information Officers: Responsibilities and Information Technology Governance at Leading Private-Sector Companies; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2005;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Simmons, C.I. A Logistic Regression Analysis of Multiple Independent Variables Impacting Psychiatric Readmissions. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University: Minneapolis, MN, 2017.

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

Hodara, S. A Show Meant to Provoke Double Takes. New York Times 2015, WE8.

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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