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 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

[1]

J.M. McCune, The dynamics of CD4+ T-cell depletion in HIV disease, Nature 410 (2001) 974–979.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B. Allenby, J. Fink, Toward inherently secure and resilient societies, Science 309 (2005) 1034–1036.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Ito, M. Woloszyn, M. Mazloff, Anthropogenic carbon dioxide transport in the Southern Ocean driven by Ekman flow, Nature 463 (2010) 80–83.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. van der Marel, H.J.A. Molegraaf, J. Zaanen, Z. Nussinov, F. Carbone, A. Damascelli, H. Eisaki, M. Greven, P.H. Kes, M. Li, Quantum critical behaviour in a high-T(c) superconductor, Nature 425 (2003) 271–274.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K. Wuestenberg, Clinical Small Animal Care, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Ames, Iowa, USA, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

S. Crespi Reghizzi, Formal Languages and Compilation, 2nd ed. 2013, Springer, London, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.O. Levitt, Injections, in: J.O. Levitt, J.F. Sobanko (Eds.), Safety in Office-Based Dermatologic Surgery, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 15–30.

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, Why Are There So Many Beetles? They’re Extinction-Resistant, 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, Analysis of NASA’s Fiscal Year 1983 Budget Request for Research and Development To Determine the Amount That Supports DOD’s Programs, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

H.A. Nixon, Defining Principals: The Seen and the Unseen. A Critical Discourse Analysis of Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium Standards Five and Six, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2015.

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]

B. Sisario, Harry Styles Tops Billboard Chart, New York Times (2017) C3.

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