How to format your references using the Cosmetics citation style

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

Graham-Rowe, D. Agriculture: Beyond Food versus Fuel. Nature 2011, 474, S6-8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Maher, B.A.; Dennis, P.F. Evidence against Dust-Mediated Control of Glacial-Interglacial Changes in Atmospheric CO2. Nature 2001, 411, 176–180.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, W.K.W.; Harrison, W.G.; Head, E.J.H. Coherent Sign Switching in Multiyear Trends of Microbial Plankton. Science 2006, 311, 1157–1160.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Edmonds, H.N.; Michael, P.J.; Baker, E.T.; Connelly, D.P.; Snow, J.E.; Langmuir, C.H.; Dick, H.J.B.; Mühe, R.; German, C.R.; Graham, D.W. Discovery of Abundant Hydrothermal Venting on the Ultraslow-Spreading Gakkel Ridge in the Arctic Ocean. Nature 2003, 421, 252–256.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carver, R.H.; Tai, K.-C. Modern Multithreading; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2005; ISBN 9780471744177.

An edited book

Uncertainty Quantification in Scientific Computing: 10th IFIP WG 2.5 Working Conference, WoCoUQ 2011, Boulder, CO, USA, August 1-4, 2011, Revised Selected Papers; Dienstfrey, A.M., Boisvert, R.F., Eds.; IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; Vol. 377; ISBN 9783642326769.

A chapter in an edited book

Freeman, A.; Rattz, J.C. Deferred Operators. In Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2010; Rattz, J.C., Ed.; Apress: Berkeley, CA, 2010; pp. 69–149 ISBN 9781430226536.

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 Cosmetics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Pumping CO2 Underground Can Help Fight Climate Change. Why Is It Stuck In Second Gear? Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/pumping-co2-underground-can-help-fight-climate-change-why-it-stuck-second-gear/ (accessed on 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office ADP: USDA Farm Service Agencies; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1992;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hernandez, A. Impact of the Child and Family Services Improvement Act of 2006 on Monthly Caseworker Visits to Children in Los Angeles County on California’s Foster Care System. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 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

Greenhouse, L. JUSTICES TAKE ON SPENDING LIMITS FOR CANDIDATES. New York Times 2005, A1.

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	Cosmetics
Abbreviation	Cosmetics
ISSN (online)	2079-9284
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