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 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

[1]

W. Triplett, Astronomers silenced in star-name wars, Nature 406 (2000) 448.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.C. Stolinsky, E. Rubinstein, Science’s Conversation with Jiang Zemin, Science 289 (2000) 548–549.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H. Szemenyei, M. Hannon, J.A. Long, TOPLESS mediates auxin-dependent transcriptional repression during Arabidopsis embryogenesis, Science 319 (2008) 1384–1386.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D.L. Valentine, J.D. Kessler, M.C. Redmond, S.D. Mendes, M.B. Heintz, C. Farwell, L. Hu, F.S. Kinnaman, S. Yvon-Lewis, M. Du, E.W. Chan, F. Garcia Tigreros, C.J. Villanueva, Propane respiration jump-starts microbial response to a deep oil spill, Science 330 (2010) 208–211.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

N.P. Cheremisinoff, Industrial Gas Flaring Practices, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

S. Kant, R.A. Berry, eds., Institutions, Sustainability, and Natural Resources: Institutions for Sustainable Forest Management, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M.J. Stillman, J.S. Kriegler, E.C. Covington, S.J. Krause, Diagnosis of Addiction, Substance Use, and Headache, in: S.J. Tepper, D.E. Tepper (Eds.), The Cleveland Clinic Manual of Headache Therapy: Second Edition, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 63–76.

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]

S. Luntz, Universe Reached Peak Heat 11 Billion Years Ago, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/space/universe-reached-peak-heat-11-billion-years-ago/ (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, Biomedical Research: NIH Should Assess the Impact of Growth in Indirect Costs on Its Mission, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

H.T. Nguyen, The ugly duckling: Juvenile delinquents in non-delinquent networks, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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, Insider Named President of Farmingdale College, New York Times (2007) 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