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. US industry starts to think big by acting small. Nature 2000;408:621–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Yeates TO, Clubb RT. Biochemistry. How some pili pull. Science 2007;318:1558–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Brohawn SG, del Mármol J, MacKinnon R. Crystal structure of the human K2P TRAAK, a lipid- and mechano-sensitive K+ ion channel. Science 2012;335:436–41.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Chou C-W, Laurat J, Deng H, Choi KS, de Riedmatten H, Felinto D, et al. Functional quantum nodes for entanglement distribution over scalable quantum networks. Science 2007;316:1316–20.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hamdan M, Righetti PG. Proteomics Today. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Zhou J, Lopez J, Deng RH, Bao F, editors. Information Security: 8th International Conference, ISC 2005, Singapore, September 20-23, 2005. Proceedings. vol. 3650. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Punter RA, Glas CAW, Meelissen MRM. Relation Between Parental Involvement and Student Achievement in PIRLS-2011. In: Glas CAW, Meelissen MRM, editors. Psychometric Framework for Modeling Parental Involvement and Reading Literacy, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 77–87.

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 D. Ten Facts You Need To Know About The Chicken And Eggs On Your Table. 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. Need To Improve Administration of Fees and Charges of Regulatory Agencies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1970.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Chotkevys DL. A grounded theory study to explore how nurses overcome barriers to spiritual care. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 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]

Hartman S. A Subway Singer in the Spotlight. New York Times 2016:MB1.

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