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

Scholl A (2000) ANTIFERROMAGNETISM: Taking a Very Close Look at Magnetic Structures. Science 288:1762–1763

A journal article with 2 authors

Löytynoja A, Goldman N (2009) Evolution. Uniting alignments and trees. Science 324:1528–1529

A journal article with 3 authors

Sekiguchi A, Kinjo R, Ichinohe M (2004) A stable compound containing a silicon-silicon triple bond. Science 305:1755–1757

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hidvegi T, Ewing M, Hale P, et al (2010) An autophagy-enhancing drug promotes degradation of mutant alpha1-antitrypsin Z and reduces hepatic fibrosis. Science 329:229–232

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lyatkher VM, Proudovsky AM (2016) Hydraulic Modeling. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Freitas VP de de, Delgado JMPQ (2013) Durability of Building Materials and Components. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Lavretsky E, Wise KA (2013) Frequency Domain Analysis. In: Wise KA (ed) Robust and Adaptive Control: With Aerospace Applications. Springer, London, pp 97–160

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 D (2016) 28 Things Dogs Should Never Eat. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/28-things-dogs-should-never-eat/. 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 (1981) Review of Pension and Fringe Benefits for Contractors’ Employees at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. 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

Nattress DA (2013) Benefits of single-gender education: Perceptions of middle grade teachers. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Flegenheimer M (2015) Piecing Through ‘Utter Chaos’ After Train Crash. New York Times A1

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