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

Gladstone, J.C. Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources: Small Field with a Large Impact. Nature 2014, 514, 171–172.

A journal article with 2 authors

Norris, D.J.; Aydil, E.S. Materials Science. Getting Moore from Solar Cells. Science 2012, 338, 625–626.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun, T.-T.; Tseng, S.C.; Lavker, R.M. Location of Corneal Epithelial Stem Cells. Nature 2010, 463, E10-1; discussion E11.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jørgensen, R.; Merrill, A.R.; Yates, S.P.; Marquez, V.E.; Schwan, A.L.; Boesen, T.; Andersen, G.R. Exotoxin A-EEF2 Complex Structure Indicates ADP Ribosylation by Ribosome Mimicry. Nature 2005, 436, 979–984.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Guzik, A. Essentials for Occupational Health Nursing; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: West Sussex, UK, 2013; ISBN 9781118783252.

An edited book

Rebeiro, C. Timing Channels in Cryptography: A Micro-Architectural Perspective; Mukhopadhyay, D., Bhattacharya, S., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; ISBN 9783319123691.

A chapter in an edited book

Gülay Gürbüz, H.; Pala Er, N.; Tekinerdogan, B. Architecture Framework for Software Safety. In System Analysis and Modeling: Models and Reusability: 8th International Conference, SAM 2014, Valencia, Spain, September 29-30, 2014. Proceedings; Amyot, D., Fonseca i Casas, P., Mussbacher, G., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; pp. 64–79 ISBN 9783319117423.

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

Andrews, R. Scientists Have Figured Out What Caused The “Alien Radio Signal” Coming From A Distant Exoplanet (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 [Comments on DOD Data Center Consolidation Plan]; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1994;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kirk, C. Early Maladaptive Attachment Styles and Psychological Aggression in Romantic Relationships: A Content Analysis, 2006-2016. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 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

Belson, K. Olympic Ideal Takes Beating In Badminton. New York Times 2012, 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	Colloids and Interfaces
ISSN (online)	9999-9999
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