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 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]

Javitt G. Which way for genetic-test regulation? Assign regulation appropriate to the level of risk. Nature. 2010;466(7308):817–818.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Liu Q, Paroo Z. Molecular biology. Dicer’s cut and switch. Science. 2010;328(5976):314–315.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Passarelli L, Rivalta E, Shuler A. Dike intrusions during rifting episodes obey scaling relationships similar to earthquakes. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3886.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Moon K-W, Chun BS, Kim W, et al. Duffing oscillation-induced reversal of magnetic vortex core by a resonant perpendicular magnetic field. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6170.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sahinoglu M. Cyber-Risk Informatics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Dell’Atti S, Trotta A, editors. Managing Reputation in The Banking Industry: Theory and Practice. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Miller L, Taha L, Jensen E. From Guidance to School Counseling: New Models in School Mental Health. In: Clauss-Ehlers CS, Serpell ZN, Weist MD, editors. Handbook of Culturally Responsive School Mental Health: Advancing Research, Training, Practice, and Policy. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. p. 43–56.

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]

Andrew E. New Discovery Could Help Mend Broken Hearts [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-discovery-could-help-mend-broken-hearts/.

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. Federal Student Loans: Audits and Reviews of the Federal Family Education Loan and Federal Direct Loan Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009. Report No.: GAO-09-992R. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Colker JO. A grounded theory approach to developing a theory of leadership through a case study of ShoreBank [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 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]

Koniak SP, Cohen GM, Dana DA, et al. How Washington Abetted the Bank Job. New York Times. 2010 Apr 4;WK10.

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