How to format your references using the Dyes and Pigments citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Dyes and Pigments. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

Scodeggio M. Astronomy. Toward resolving the mystery of galaxy formation. Science 2001;294:537–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Chhowalla M, Amaratunga GA. Thin films of fullerene-like MoS2 nanoparticles with ultra-low friction and wear. Nature 2000;407:164–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bhavsar AP, Guttman JA, Finlay BB. Manipulation of host-cell pathways by bacterial pathogens. Nature 2007;449:827–34.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ou X, Li Z, Fan F, Wang H, Wu H. Long-range magnetic interaction and frustration in double perovskites Sr₂NiIrO₆ and Sr₂ZnIrO₆. Sci Rep 2014;4:7542.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Delgado RL-C, Araki M. Spoken, Multilingual and Multimodal Dialogue Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Orłowska-Kowalska T, Blaabjerg F, Rodríguez J, editors. Advanced and Intelligent Control in Power Electronics and Drives. vol. 531. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Schiller I, Koch R. Datastructures for Capturing Dynamic Scenes with a Time-of-Flight Camera. In: Kolb A, Koch R, editors. Dynamic 3D Imaging: DAGM 2009 Workshop, Dyn3D 2009, Jena, Germany, September 9, 2009. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 42–57.

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 Dyes and Pigments.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. WHO Prepares For Ebola Outbreak to Reach 20,000 In Nine Months. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/who-prepares-ebola-outbreak-reach-20000-nine-months/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Procurement Equipment for New York Postal Data Center. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Thiss PJ. Effects of dedicated academic support services on the persistence rates of California Community College student-athletes. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral University, 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

[1]

Kolomatsky M. Cyclists: Where to Live in New York. New York Times 2017:RE2.

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	Dyes and Pigments
Abbreviation	Dyes Pigm.
ISSN (print)	0143-7208
Scope	General Chemical Engineering Process Chemistry and Technology