How to format your references using the International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives. 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]

Butler D. French take physics archives into the future. Nature 2000;407:825.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Roman J, Palumbi SR. Whales before whaling in the North Atlantic. Science 2003;301:508–10.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Pawloski JR, Hess DT, Stamler JS. Export by red blood cells of nitric oxide bioactivity. Nature 2001;409:622–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wong YH, Ryu T, Seridi L, Ghosheh Y, Bougouffa S, Qian P-Y, et al. Transcriptome analysis elucidates key developmental components of bryozoan lophophore development. Sci Rep 2014;4:6534.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Gasser W, Heiner E, Elk K. Greensche Funktionen in Festkörper- und Vielteilchenphysik. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Green DG. Complexity in Landscape Ecology. vol. 4. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sarcar P, Basu S, Ghosh A. Broadband Rectangular Microstrip Patch Antennas for K and EHF Bands. In: Maharatna K, Dalapati GK, Banerjee PK, Mallick AK, Mukherjee M, editors. Computational Advancement in Communication Circuits and Systems: Proceedings of ICCACCS 2014, New Delhi: Springer India; 2015, p. 29–37.

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 International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. The Possible Cause Of Flashbacks Discovered. IFLScience 2016.

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. NASA: Assessments of Selected Large-Scale Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Shina YE. Youth under the care of the child welfare and juvenile justice systems: A grant proposal for crossover youth. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Brantley B. Hello, P.L.O.? This Is Israel, via Oslo. New York Times 2017:C1.

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	International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives
Abbreviation	Int. J. Adhes. Adhes.
ISSN (print)	0143-7496
Scope	General Chemical Engineering Biomaterials Polymers and Plastics