How to format your references using the Journal of Membrane Science citation style

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

D.M. Jonas, Chemistry. Optical analogs of 2D NMR, Science 300 (2003) 1515–1517.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E. Ranta, V. Kaitala, Comment on “Stability via asynchrony in Drosophila metapopulations with low migration rates,” Science 314 (2006) 420; author reply 420.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P. Chakraborty, G. Gioia, S.W. Kieffer, Volcanic mesocyclones, Nature 458 (2009) 497–500.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. Manzo, T.S. van Zanten, S. Saha, J.A. Torreno-Pina, S. Mayor, M.F. Garcia-Parajo, PSF decomposition of nanoscopy images via Bayesian analysis unravels distinct molecular organization of the cell membrane, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4354.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M.D. George, T.G. Donley, P.M. Preshaw, Ultrasonic Periodontal Debridement, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

A. Greiner, Public Debt, Sustainability and Economic Growth: Theory and Empirics, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Lazzini, L. Anselmi, L.L. Schiavo, A.M. Falanga, The Role of Information Systems to Support Performance Management in Public Administration: The Case of the Italian Regulatory Authority for the Energy Sector, in: D. Baglieri, C. Metallo, C. Rossignoli, M. Pezzillo Iacono (Eds.), Information Systems, Management, Organization and Control: Smart Practices and Effects, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 47–64.

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 Membrane Science.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Work On Devastating Parasitic Diseases Wins Nobel Prize, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/work-devastating-parasitic-diseases-wins-nobel-prize/ (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, Excess Classroom Space--A Case for Better Planning, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T.Y. Willis, Rare but there: An intersectional exploration of the experiences and outcomes of Black women who studied abroad through community college programs, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

S.M. Nir, A Gasoline Desert Expands on an Island of Many Cars, New York Times (2016) A15.

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 Membrane Science
Abbreviation	J. Memb. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0376-7388
Scope	Biochemistry Filtration and Separation Physical and Theoretical Chemistry General Materials Science