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]

Pennisi E. Geography. Advancing seasons in China. Science 2013;341:482–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Burgisser A, Scaillet B. Redox evolution of a degassing magma rising to the surface. Nature 2007;445:194–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Langer P, Hogendoorn K, Keller L. Tug-of-war over reproduction in a social bee. Nature 2004;428:844–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Taga ME, Larsen NA, Howard-Jones AR, Walsh CT, Walker GC. BluB cannibalizes flavin to form the lower ligand of vitamin B12. Nature 2007;446:449–53.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Banerjee S, Lawrence V. Managing Dementia in a Multicultural Society. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Ahmad SI, editor. Diseases of DNA Repair. vol. 685. New York, NY: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

He Y, Ding L, Li Y. Research on Domain Adaptation for SMT Based on Specific Domain Knowledge. In: Yang M, Liu S, editors. Machine Translation: 12th China Workshop, CWMT 2016, Urumqi, China, August 25–26, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, Singapore: Springer; 2016, p. 43–60.

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]

Luntz S. Proposed Device Could Capture Unlimited Renewable Energy From Earth’s Infared Emissions. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/proposed-device-could-capture-unlimited-renewable-energy-earths-infared-emissions/ (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. Space Station: Status of Efforts to Determine Commercial Potential. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

McCorkle WB. Tongue, Nib, Block, Bit: Rhetorical Delivery and Technologies of Writing. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University, 2005.

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]

Vlasic B. Detroit’s Chief Instigator. New York Times 2015:BU1.

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

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