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

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

Charlesworth D (2008) Evolution. Competitive centromeres. Science 322:1484–1485

A journal article with 2 authors

Ibata RA, Lewis GF (2008) The cosmic web in our own backyard. Science 319:50–52

A journal article with 3 authors

Vilan A, Shanzer A, Cahen D (2000) Molecular control over Au/GaAs diodes. Nature 404:166–168

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Milazzo M, Rodolfo-Metalpa R, Chan VBS, et al (2014) Ocean acidification impairs vermetid reef recruitment. Sci Rep 4:4189

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Altman MC (2011) Kant and Applied Ethics. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Lakshmanan V, Gilleland E, McGovern A, Tingley M (2015) Machine Learning and Data Mining Approaches to Climate Science: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Climate Informatics. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Ugurlu T, Zeitler A, Kheyrollahi A (2013) HttpClient. In: Zeitler A, Kheyrollahi A (eds) Pro ASP.NET Web API: HTTP Web Services in ASP.NET. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp 75–94

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 Polymer Science.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) New Method Could Reveal Your Entire Viral Infection History With A Single Drop Of Blood. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/your-entire-viral-infection-history-revealed-single-drop-blood/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1996) Information Technology: Streamlining FHA’s Single Family Housing Operations. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Edmonds JL (2009) Mobility and population change in northeast Mississippi: An object-based seriation of projectile points as a relative paleodemographic indicator. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University

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

Vecsey G (2010) An Obvious Case For Instant Replay. New York Times D3

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 Polymer Science
Abbreviation	Colloid Polym. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0303-402X
ISSN (online)	1435-1536
Scope	Colloid and Surface Chemistry Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Materials Chemistry Polymers and Plastics