How to format your references using the Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

M.E. Schwab, Repairing the injured spinal cord, Science 295 (2002) 1029–1031.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.J. Price, S. Rosswog, Producing ultrastrong magnetic fields in neutron star mergers, Science 312 (2006) 719–722.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P.A. Stott, D.A. Stone, M.R. Allen, Human contribution to the European heatwave of 2003, Nature 432 (2004) 610–614.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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J.D. White, J. Chen, D. Matsiev, D.J. Auerbach, A.M. Wodtke, Conversion of large-amplitude vibration to electron excitation at a metal surface, Nature 433 (2005) 503–505.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Grant, Ecosystem Services Come to Town, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

J.T. Hoff, R.F. Keep, G. Xi, Y. Hua, eds., Brain Edema XIII, Springer, Vienna, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G.M. Namata, H. Sharara, L. Getoor, A Survey of Link Mining Tasks for Analyzing Noisy and Incomplete Networks, in: P.S. Yu, J. Han, C. Faloutsos (Eds.), Link Mining: Models, Algorithms, and Applications, Springer, New York, NY, 2010: pp. 107–133.

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 Surfaces B: Biointerfaces.

Blog post

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D. Andrew, How Do We Weigh The Moral Value Of Human Lives Against Animal Ones?, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-do-we-weigh-the-moral-value-of-human-lives-against-animal-ones/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Department of Housing and Urban Development: Lack of Accountability for Computer Equipment Leaves These Assets Vulnerable to Loss or Misappropriation, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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R.R. Bourgault, Multi-scale pedologic investigation of manganiferous soils in the Maryland Piedmont, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.

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

[1]

L. Saslow, Students Help Track Black Squirrels, New York Times (2008) LI2.

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 Surfaces B: Biointerfaces
Abbreviation	Colloids Surf. B Biointerfaces
ISSN (print)	0927-7765
Scope	Biotechnology Colloid and Surface Chemistry Physical and Theoretical Chemistry General Medicine Surfaces and Interfaces