How to format your references using the Molecular Catalysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Molecular 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	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

[1]

J. Stajic, Quantum information processing. The future of quantum information processing. Introduction, Science 339 (2013) 1163.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Watson, D. Pauly, Systematic distortions in world fisheries catch trends, Nature 414 (2001) 534–536.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P. Stern, P.J. Hines, J. Travis, The aging brain. Introduction, Science 346 (2014) 566–567.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B. Li, Z. Song, Z. Li, H. Wang, R. Gui, R. Song, Phylogenetic variation of phytolith carbon sequestration in bamboos, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4710.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Glisic, Advanced Wireless Communications, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

M.D. Weist, N.A. Lever, C.P. Bradshaw, J.S. Owens, eds., Handbook of School Mental Health: Research, Training, Practice, and Policy, 2nd ed. 2014, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Zarghami, F. Szidarovszky, Solution of Continuous MCDA Problems, in: F. Szidarovszky (Ed.), Multicriteria Analysis: Applications to Water and Environment Management, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 51–76.

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 Molecular Catalysis.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Centuries-Old Skeletons Reveal How Dissection Tools Improved, IFLScience (2015).

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, Transportation Infrastructure: Oversight of Rental Rates for Highway Construction Equipment Is Inadequate, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.L. Fair, Structure of the Roberts Mountains allochthon in the Three Bar Ranch Quadrangle, Roberts Mountains, Eureka County, Nevada, 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]

G.G. Gustines, In Comics World, Needy Have Heroes Of Their Own, New York Times (2012) F12.

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	Molecular Catalysis
ISSN (print)	2468-8231
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