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]

L. Gravitz, Therapy: This time it’s personal, Nature. 509 (2014) S52-4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L.L. Hench, J.M. Polak, Third-generation biomedical materials, Science. 295 (2002) 1014–1017.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Mizutani, J.S. Chahl, M.V. Srinivasan, Insect behaviour: Motion camouflage in dragonflies, Nature. 423 (2003) 604.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Vasanthi, A. Nagabhushan, N.K. Matharu, R.K. Mishra, A functionally conserved Polycomb response element from mouse HoxD complex responds to heterochromatin factors, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3011.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.H. Schmidt, G.E. Rodrick, Food Safety Handbook, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

U. Schnars, Digital Holography: Digital Hologram Recording, Numerical Reconstruction, and Related Techniques, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R.T. Kreutzer, K.-H. Land, How the Social Revolution Is to Be Managed, in: K.-H. Land (Ed.), Digital Darwinism: Branding and Business Models in Jeopardy, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015: pp. 99–128.

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]

B. Taub, Young Human Blood Rejuvenates Old Mice, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/young-human-blood-rejuvenates-old-mice/ (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, Guaranteed Student Loans: Eliminating Interest Rate Floors Could Generate Substantial Savings, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

I.S. Graves, Positioning of Fifth Grade Students in Small-Group Settings: Naming Participation in Discussion-Based Mathematics, Doctoral dissertation, Indiana 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]

J. Williams, Who Says Religion and Science Don’t Mix?, New York Times. (2017) C5.

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

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