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

Holdren, J.P. Retrospective. Joseph Rotblat (1908-2005). Science 2005, 310, 633.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fischbach, M.A.; Walsh, C.T. Antibiotics for Emerging Pathogens. Science 2009, 325, 1089–1093.

A journal article with 3 authors

Erickson, B.; Singh, R.; Winters, P. Synthetic Biology: Regulating Industry Uses of New Biotechnologies. Science 2011, 333, 1254–1256.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Partridge, T.C.; Granger, D.E.; Caffee, M.W.; Clarke, R.J. Lower Pliocene Hominid Remains from Sterkfontein. Science 2003, 300, 607–612.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Radoine, H. Architecture in Context; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2017; ISBN 9781119173120.

An edited book

Behavioral Neurobiology of Huntington’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease; Nguyen, H.H.P., Cenci, M.A., Eds.; Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015; Vol. 22; ISBN 9783662463437.

A chapter in an edited book

Hult, J. The Dangerous Steam Engine. In Risks in Technological Systems; Grimvall, G., Holmgren, Å.J., Jacobsson, P., Thedéen, T., Eds.; Springer Series in Reliability Engineering; Springer: London, 2010; pp. 35–45 ISBN 9781848826403.

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

Davis, J. Gene Linked To Age Perception Discovered Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gene-linked-youthful-appearance-discovered/ (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 Joint Simulation Training; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1994;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Perilla, J.Y. Support Group for Neonatal Intensive Care Families: A Grant Proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2015.

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

Walsh, M.W. Cities Urge Public Pension Funds to Divest From Gun Makers. New York Times 2013, B1.

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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