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

deMenocal, P.B. Cultural Responses to Climate Change during the Late Holocene. Science 2001, 292, 667–673.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li, R.; Wang, Y. Neural Mechanism for Sensing Fast Motion in Dim Light. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 3159.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ooi, T.L.; Wu, B.; He, Z.J. Distance Determined by the Angular Declination below the Horizon. Nature 2001, 414, 197–200.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cao, Y.; Jin, X.; Levin, E.J.; Huang, H.; Zong, Y.; Quick, M.; Weng, J.; Pan, Y.; Love, J.; Punta, M.; et al. Crystal Structure of a Phosphorylation-Coupled Saccharide Transporter. Nature 2011, 473, 50–54.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sawant, R.J. Infrastructure Investing; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2010; ISBN 9781118268124.

An edited book

Michel, A.N. Stability of Dynamical Systems: On the Role of Monotonic and Non-Monotonic Lyapunov Functions; Hou, L., Liu, D., Eds.; Systems & Control: Foundations & Applications; 2nd ed. 2015.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; ISBN 9783319152745.

A chapter in an edited book

van den Hoven, M. Commentary: The Struggle Against AIDS and the Pharmaceuticals Industry – Are There Limits to the Moral Obligation to Do Good? In European Business Ethics Cases in Context: The Morality of Corporate Decision Making; Dubbink, W., Liedekerke, L. van, Luijk, H. van, Eds.; Issues in Business Ethics; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2011; pp. 47–53 ISBN 9789048193332.

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. Stephen Hawking Claims Aggression Will Be Downfall of Human Race Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/stephen-hawking-claims-aggression-will-be-downfall-human-race/ (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 Research and Development Funding: Reported Gap Between Data From Federal Agencies and Their R&D Performers Results From Noncomparable Data; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2001;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Carpenter, D.M. Understanding the Effect of Conflicting Information on Medication Adherence for Vasculitis Patients. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina: Chapel Hill, NC, 2009.

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

Barron, J. Overlooked Influences in Trump’s Life: A Famous Minister and His Church. New York Times 2016, A14.

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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