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

Masood, E. Expert Assessments Can Work If Lessons Are Learned. Nature 2012, 490, 145.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gargiulo, F.; Carletti, T. Driving Forces of Researchers Mobility. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4860.

A journal article with 3 authors

Noda, S.; Chutinan, A.; Imada, M. Trapping and Emission of Photons by a Single Defect in a Photonic Bandgap Structure. Nature 2000, 407, 608–610.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Beck, M.; Förster, F.; Ecke, M.; Plitzko, J.M.; Melchior, F.; Gerisch, G.; Baumeister, W.; Medalia, O. Nuclear Pore Complex Structure and Dynamics Revealed by Cryoelectron Tomography. Science 2004, 306, 1387–1390.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Labadie, N.; Prins, C.; Prodhon, C. Metaheuristics for Vehicle Routing Problems; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2016; ISBN 9781119136767.

An edited book

Climate Change and Agriculture Worldwide; Torquebiau, E., Ed.; 1st ed. 2016.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2016; ISBN 9789401774604.

A chapter in an edited book

Clemente, F.M.; Martins, F.M.L.; Mendes, R.S. Micro Levels of Analysis: Player’s Centralities in the Team. In Social Network Analysis Applied to Team Sports Analysis; Martins, F.M.L., Mendes, R.S., Eds.; SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 47–64 ISBN 9783319258546.

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. Underground Map Reveals Hidden Secrets Of Stonehenge And Nearby Monstrous “Super Henge” Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/underground-map-reveals-hidden-secrets-stonehenge-and-nearby-monstrous-super-henge/ (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 NASA Procurement: Status of Efforts to Improve Oversight; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1998;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jategaonkar, S.P. Two Essays on Stock Repurchases and Insider Trading. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona: Tucson, AZ, 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

Nechepurenko, I.; Hubbard, B. On Trip to Moscow, King Seeks Warmer Relations. New York Times 2017, A8.

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

Research and Writing Guides