How to format your references using the Colloid and Interface Science Communications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Colloid and Interface Science Communications. 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

[1]

M.F. White, Longevity: Mapping the path to a longer life, Nature 524 (2015) 170–171.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G. Knorr, G. Lohmann, Southern Ocean origin for the resumption of Atlantic thermohaline circulation during deglaciation, Nature 424 (2003) 532–536.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

I. Sánchez, C. Mahlke, J. Yuan, Pivotal role of oligomerization in expanded polyglutamine neurodegenerative disorders, Nature 421 (2003) 373–379.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Ryu, H. Kang, J. Cho, S. Das, Turbulence and magnetic fields in the large-scale structure of the universe, Science 320 (2008) 909–912.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.M. Metzger, The Physical Chemist’s Toolbox, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

S.S. Dash, M.A. Bhaskar, B.K. Panigrahi, S. Das, eds., Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Computations in Engineering Systems: Proceedings of ICAIECES 2015, 1st ed. 2016, Springer India, New Delhi, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Zarankin, M. Salerno, So Far, So Close. Approaching Experience in the Study of the Encounter Between Sealers and the South Shetland Islands (Antarctica, Nineteenth Century), in: R. Peder, L.-M. van der Watt, A. Howkins (Eds.), Antarctica and the Humanities, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016: pp. 79–103.

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 Colloid and Interface Science Communications.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Burst of Innovation Found in Jurassic Mammals, IFLScience (2015).

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, Charter Schools: Issues Affecting Access to Federal Funds, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.P. Faello, Is strong corporate governance associated with informative income smoothing?, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, 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

[1]

K. Hansen, Even a Rock Star Has to Be Careful, New York Times (2013) B6.

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	Colloid and Interface Science Communications
Abbreviation	Colloids Interface Sci. Commun.
ISSN (print)	2215-0382
Scope	Biotechnology Colloid and Surface Chemistry Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Materials Chemistry Surfaces, Coatings and Films