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]

J.E. Grindlay, Astronomy. A neutron star in F-sharp, Science 311 (2006) 1876–1877.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E.M. Small, E.N. Olson, Pervasive roles of microRNAs in cardiovascular biology, Nature 469 (2011) 336–342.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.W. Powner, B. Gerland, J.D. Sutherland, Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions, Nature 459 (2009) 239–242.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A.R. Aricescu, C. Siebold, K. Choudhuri, V.T. Chang, W. Lu, S.J. Davis, P.A. van der Merwe, E.Y. Jones, Structure of a tyrosine phosphatase adhesive interaction reveals a spacer-clamp mechanism, Science 317 (2007) 1217–1220.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M.J. Pilot, Driving Sustainability to Business Success, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

M. Li, B. Boehm, L.J. Osterweil, eds., Unifying the Software Process Spectrum: International Software Process Workshop, SPW 2005, Beijing, China, May 25-27, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. Bronner, A. Richards, Integrating Multi-Agent Technology with Cognitive Modeling to Develop an Insurgency Information Framework (IIF), in: H. Liu, J.J. Salerno, M.J. Young (Eds.), Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2008: pp. 26–36.

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

[1]

E. Andrew, Potential Obesity-Contributing Gene Identified, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/potential-obesity-contributing-gene-identified/ (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, Information Resources: Management Improvements Essential for Key Agriculture Automated Systems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.M. Smith, (Un)Working Binaries, (Un)Doing Privilege: Narratives of Teachers Who Make Safe Spaces for LGBTQ Students, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2012.

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]

B. Sisario, A No. 1 for Lady Gaga, 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 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