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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Radom, L. Obituary: John A. Pople (1925-2004). Nature 2004, 428, 816.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mota, B.; Herculano-Houzel, S. BRAIN STRUCTURE. Cortical Folding Scales Universally with Surface Area and Thickness, Not Number of Neurons. Science 2015, 349, 74–77.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yohe, G.; Andronova, N.; Schlesinger, M. Climate. To Hedge or Not against an Uncertain Climate Future? Science 2004, 306, 416–417.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Xia, H.; Zhu, D.; Luo, Z.; Yu, Y.; Shi, X.; Yuan, G.; Xie, J. Hierarchically Structured Co₃O₄@Pt@MnO₂ Nanowire Arrays for High-Performance Supercapacitors. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2978.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fredriksson, H.; Åkerlind, U. Solidification and Crystallization Processing in Metals and Alloys; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2012; ISBN 9781119975540.

An edited book

Innovations and Advances in Computer Sciences and Engineering; Sobh, T., Ed.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2010; ISBN 9789048136575.

A chapter in an edited book

Musselin, C. Change or Continuity in Higher Education Governance? In Governing Knowledge: A Study of Continuity and Change in Higher Education A Festschrift in Honour of Maurice Kogan; Bleiklie, I., Henkel, M., Eds.; Higher Education Dynamics; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2005; pp. 65–79 ISBN 9781402034893.

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. The Best Planet Duo Of 2015 - Venus And Jupiter Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/best-planet-duo-2015-venus-and-jupiter/ (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 Electronic Government: Planned e-Authentication Gateway Faces Formidable Development Challenges; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2003;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Krishnan, R. Generalized Conditional Matching Algorithm for Ordered and Unordered Sets. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida: Tampa, FL, 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

Vecsey, G. The Star Who Stood Out By Not Standing Out. New York Times 2013, D1.

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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