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]

Smaglik P. Pitching ideas. Nature 2004;427:759.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lord CJ, Ashworth A. The DNA damage response and cancer therapy. Nature 2012;481:287–94.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Berner RA, Vandenbrooks JM, Ward PD. Evolution. Oxygen and evolution. Science 2007;316:557–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Hang R, Liu Y, Zhao L, Gao A, Bai L, Huang X, et al. Fabrication of Ni-Ti-O nanotube arrays by anodization of NiTi alloy and their potential applications. Sci Rep 2014;4:7547.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lalanne C. Specification Development. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Allemang R, De Clerck J, Niezrecki C, Wicks A, editors. Topics in Modal Analysis, Volume 7: Proceedings of the 31st IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2013. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bianchi M, Draoli M, Gambosi G. An Innovative Approach to the Development of E-Government Search Services. In: Andersen KN, Francesconi E, Grönlund Å, Engers TM van, editors. Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective: Second International Conference, EGOVIS 2011, Toulouse, France, August 29 – September 2, 2011. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011, p. 41–55.

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]

Carpineti A. Astronomers Have Observed Water Clouds In A Distant Star System. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-have-observed-water-clouds-on-a-failed-star/ (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. Airport Finance: Preliminary Analysis Indicates Proposed Changes in the Airport Improvement Program May Not Resolve Funding Needs for Smaller Airports. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Munn JE. Information Technology Certification Training Implementation: Exploratory Case Study of Air Force and Civilian Leaders Experiences. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 2017.

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]

Vecsey G. Watching Argentina Up Close, Hoping to Learn Something. New York Times 2011:D8.

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