How to format your references using the Journal of Surfactants and Detergents citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Surfactants and Detergents. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Cairns BR (2009) The logic of chromatin architecture and remodelling at promoters. Nature 461:193–198

A journal article with 2 authors

Emery NJ, Clayton NS (2001) Effects of experience and social context on prospective caching strategies by scrub jays. Nature 414:443–446

A journal article with 3 authors

Zheng X, Zhang R, Huang H (2014) Theoretical modeling of relative humidity on contact electrification of sand particles. Sci Rep 4:4399

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Caron J-B, Scheltema A, Schander C, Rudkin D (2006) A soft-bodied mollusc with radula from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. Nature 442:159–163

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Charalambides CA (2016) Discrete q-Distributions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Collmann J, Matei SA (2016) Ethical Reasoning in Big Data: An Exploratory Analysis. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Barry P, Rajković PM, Petković MD (2011) An Application of Sobolev Orthogonal Polynomials to the Computation of a Special Hankel Determinant. In: Gautschi W, Mastroianni G, Rassias TM (eds) Approximation and Computation: In Honor of Gradimir V. Milovanović. Springer, New York, NY, pp 53–60

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 Journal of Surfactants and Detergents.

Blog post

Andrew E (2016) Sexual Harassment Compromises Graduate Students’ Safety. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/sexual-harassment-compromises-graduate-students-safety/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2013) GPS Disruptions: Efforts to Assess Risks to Critical Infrastructure and Coordinate Agency Actions Should Be Enhanced. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rodriguez G (2013) Undocumented students in higher education: A grant project. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Hubbard B (2017) Overlooking Slights by Trump, Saudis Plan a Lavish Welcome. New York Times 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 Surfactants and Detergents
Abbreviation	J. Surfactants Deterg.
ISSN (print)	1097-3958
ISSN (online)	1558-9293
Scope	General Chemical Engineering Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Surfaces, Coatings and Films