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]

Moreno E. Cancer: Darwinian tumour suppression. Nature 2014;509:435–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ehrlich PR, Kennedy D. Sustainability. Millennium assessment of human behavior. Science 2005;309:562–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Cui P, Tang M, Wu Z-X. Message spreading in networks with stickiness and persistence: large clustering does not always facilitate large-scale diffusion. Sci Rep 2014;4:6303.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Nanbo A, Watanabe S, Halfmann P, Kawaoka Y. The spatio-temporal distribution dynamics of Ebola virus proteins and RNA in infected cells. Sci Rep 2013;3:1206.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Plantin J-C. Participatory Mapping. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Fernandez-Jalvo Y. Atlas of Taphonomic Identifications: 1001+ Images of Fossil and Recent Mammal Bone Modification. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Murray CE. Probing Strained Semiconductor Structures with Nanoscale X-ray Diffraction. In: Proulx T, editor. Engineering Applications of Residual Stress, Volume 8: Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, New York, NY: Springer; 2011, p. 35–7.

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]

Davis J. Scientists Map The Amazon By Its Chemical Traits. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/scientists-map-amazon-its-chemical-traits/ (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. Telecommunications: Options for and Barriers to Spectrum Reform. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Christiansen LM. The impact of high quality professional development on student achievement in the state of Missouri. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood 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]

Kishkovsky S. Russia: Jehovah’s Witness Acquitted of Incitement. New York Times 2011:A11.

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