How to format your references using the Journal of Catalysis citation style

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

R.F. Service, CHEMISTRY: Crystals Branch Out Into Exotic Shapes, Science 290 (2000) 1875.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.M. Nanus, P. Giannakakou, CANCER. Cancer therapies that are gone with the Wnt, Science 349 (2015) 1283–1284.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.A. Alford, P.M. Dixon, J.H. Pechmann, Ecology. Global amphibian population declines, Nature 412 (2001) 499–500.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. Zhang, K. Yaji, T. Hashimoto, Y. Ota, T. Kondo, K. Okazaki, Z. Wang, J. Wen, G.D. Gu, H. Ding, S. Shin, Observation of topological superconductivity on the surface of an iron-based superconductor, Science 360 (2018) 182–186.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.A. Schwartz, M.G. Carew, T. Maksimenko, Micro Markets, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

A. Neustein, H.A. Patil, eds., Forensic Speaker Recognition: Law Enforcement and Counter-Terrorism, Springer, New York, NY, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Verweij, Case Description: The Pharmaceutical Industry and the AIDS Crisis, in: W. Dubbink, L. van Liedekerke, H. van Luijk (Eds.), European Business Ethics Cases in Context: The Morality of Corporate Decision Making, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011: pp. 33–45.

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 Journal of Catalysis.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Experience Mars With New Online Tools To Celebrate Curiosity’s Birthday, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/curiositys-3rd-birthday-mars-marked-experience-curiosity-and-mars-trek/ (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, Office of Personnel Management: Agency Needs to Improve Outcome Measures to Demonstrate the Value of Its Innovation Lab, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E.P. Hagarty, A predictive risk modeling system for the management of small-scale water and wastewater facilities: Toward long-term sustainability of our national parks, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2008.

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]

A. Nagourney, I. Lovett, R. Pérez-Peña, Shooting Rampage Sows Terror in California, New York Times (2015) A1.

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	Journal of Catalysis
Abbreviation	J. Catal.
ISSN (print)	0021-9517
Scope	Catalysis Physical and Theoretical Chemistry