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

Nowotny, H. Preserve the European Research Council’s Legacy. Nature 2013, 504, 189.

A journal article with 2 authors

Istvan, E.S.; Deisenhofer, J. Structural Mechanism for Statin Inhibition of HMG-CoA Reductase. Science 2001, 292, 1160–1164.

A journal article with 3 authors

Junker, J.P.; Ziegler, F.; Rief, M. Ligand-Dependent Equilibrium Fluctuations of Single Calmodulin Molecules. Science 2009, 323, 633–637.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Salje, H.; Cummings, D.A.T.; Rodriguez-Barraquer, I.; Katzelnick, L.C.; Lessler, J.; Klungthong, C.; Thaisomboonsuk, B.; Nisalak, A.; Weg, A.; Ellison, D.; et al. Reconstruction of Antibody Dynamics and Infection Histories to Evaluate Dengue Risk. Nature 2018, 557, 719–723.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anjum, B.; Perros, H. Bandwidth Allocation for Video Under Quality of Service Constraints; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2015; ISBN 9781119073178.

An edited book

Pascucci, A. Finanza Matematica: Teoria e Problemi per Modelli Multiperiodali; Runggaldier, W.J., Ed.; UNITEXT; Springer: Milano, 2009; ISBN 9788847014411.

A chapter in an edited book

Jie, Y. Development on Copper Smelters in China Today. In Engineering Solutions for Sustainability: Materials and Resources II; Fergus, J.W., Mishra, B., Anderson, D., Sarver, E.A., Neelameggham, N.R., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 43–54 ISBN 9783319486130.

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. Aurora Borealis Illuminates the Skies Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/aurora-borealis-illuminates-skies-around-world/ (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 Technology Development: Future Use of NASA’s Large Format Camera Is Uncertain; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1990;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Smith, B. Analysis of Hydraulic and Financial Operations of a Recycled Water System: A Case Study of the Orange County Water District’s Green Acres Project. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 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

St. John Kelly, E. PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times 1993, 1317.

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
Scope