How to format your references using the Composite Interfaces citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Composite 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

[1]

Chyba CF. Energy for microbial life on Europa. Nature. 2000;403:381–382.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Pasteris JD, Wopenka B. Laser-Raman spectroscopy: images of the Earth’s earliest fossils? Nature. 2002;420:476–477; discussion 477.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Suzuki T, Asami M, Perry ACF. Asymmetric parental genome engineering by Cas9 during mouse meiotic exit. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7621.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Sirenko AA, Bernhard C, Golnik A, et al. Soft-mode hardening in SrTiO3 thin films. Nature. 2000;404:373–376.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Graham C. Markov Chains: Analytic and Monte Carlo Computations. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Satapathy SC, Das S, editors. Proceedings of First International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Intelligent Systems: Volume 2. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Buchmann J, Vollmer U. Constructing Forms. In: Vollmer U, editor. Binary Quadratic Forms: An Algorithmic Approach. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 35–56.

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 Composite Interfaces.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K. Beware Of Undercooked Chicken Livers [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/beware-of-undercooked-chicken-livers/.

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. Review of Selected Contracts Awarded by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979. Report No.: PSAD-79-103. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Armani MD. Nucleic acid extraction and detection across two-dimensional tissue samples [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2010.

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]

Choi MHK. Terror in the Streets. New York Times. 2013 Jun 27;MM50.

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	Composite Interfaces
Abbreviation	Compos. Interfaces
ISSN (online)	1568-5543
Scope	Ceramics and Composites Surfaces, Coatings and Films General Physics and Astronomy