How to format your references using the Colloids and Interfaces citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Colloids and Interfaces. 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

Andersson, S.G.E. Genetics. The Bacterial World Gets Smaller. Science 2006, 314, 259–260.

A journal article with 2 authors

Trenberth, K.E.; Fasullo, J.T. Climate Change. Tracking Earth’s Energy. Science 2010, 328, 316–317.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tomonaga, M.; Uwano, Y.; Saito, T. How Dolphins See the World: A Comparison with Chimpanzees and Humans. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 3717.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Koshnick, N.C.; Bluhm, H.; Huber, M.E.; Moler, K.A. Fluctuation Superconductivity in Mesoscopic Aluminum Rings. Science 2007, 318, 1440–1443.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Richter, D.H. Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2017; ISBN 9781118621097.

An edited book

Challenges to Democratic Governance in Developing Countries; Mudacumura, G., Morçöl, G., Eds.; Public Administration, Governance and Globalization; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; Vol. 11; ISBN 9783319031422.

A chapter in an edited book

Boulier, F.; Chen, C.; Lemaire, F.; Moreno Maza, M. Real Root Isolation of Regular Chains. In Computer Mathematics: 9th Asian Symposium (ASCM2009), Fukuoka, December 2009, 10th Asian Symposium (ASCM2012), Beijing, October 2012, Contributed Papers and Invited Talks; Feng, R., Lee, W.-S., Sato, Y., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014; pp. 33–48 ISBN 9783662437988.

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 Colloids and Interfaces.

Blog post

Luntz, S. World’s Oldest Ground Axe Discovered In Australia Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/worlds-oldest-ground-ax-discovered-australian/ (accessed on 30 October 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 NASA-Ames Research Center Should Not Have Awarded Computational Services Contract to SBA and Technology Development of California; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1983;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Abraham, C. How Are Nonresident African American Fathers Involved in Their Children’s Academic Success? Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University: Washington, DC, 2017.

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

Sisario, B. Dylan and the Nobel: It Gets Weirder. New York Times 2016, 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	Colloids and Interfaces
ISSN (online)	9999-9999
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