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

Abbott, R.J. Evolution. Sex, Sunflowers, and Speciation. Science 2003, 301, 1189–1190.

A journal article with 2 authors

Treves, A.; Bruskotter, J. Ecology. Tolerance for Predatory Wildlife. Science 2014, 344, 476–477.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu, D.W.-L.; Bischof, W.F.; Kingstone, A. Looking While Eating: The Importance of Social Context to Social Attention. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2356.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bergman, T.J.; Beehner, J.C.; Cheney, D.L.; Seyfarth, R.M. Hierarchical Classification by Rank and Kinship in Baboons. Science 2003, 302, 1234–1236.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg, S.M. Controllership; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2009; ISBN 9781118268322.

An edited book

Innovative Control Systems for Tracked Vehicle Platforms; Nawrat. M, A.M., Ed.; Studies in Systems, Decision and Control; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; Vol. 2; ISBN 9783319046235.

A chapter in an edited book

Grüne, L.; Allgöwer, F.; Findeisen, R.; Fischer, J.; Groß, D.; Hanebeck, U.D.; Kern, B.; Müller, M.A.; Pannek, J.; Reble, M.; et al. Distributed and Networked Model Predictive Control. In Control Theory of Digitally Networked Dynamic Systems; Lunze, J., Ed.; Springer International Publishing: Heidelberg, 2014; pp. 111–167 ISBN 9783319011301.

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

Andrew, E. Sino-Tibetan Populations Shed Light On Human Cooperation Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sino-tibetan-populations-shed-light-human-cooperation/ (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 NTSB Recommendations; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1987;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Karch, K. An Investigation of Perceptions about Smart Mobile Phone Usage as an Instructional Tool in a High School Classroom. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University: Minneapolis, MN, 2014.

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

Hodgman, J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times 2017, MM16.

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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