How to format your references using the Progress in Organic Coatings citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Progress in Organic Coatings. 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]

X. Zhang, Plant science. Delayed gratification--waiting to terminate stem cell identity, Science 343 (2014) 498–499.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L.M. Martinez, C.A. Angell, A thermodynamic connection to the fragility of glass-forming liquids, Nature 410 (2001) 663–667.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

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

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Schurger, F. Pereira, A. Treisman, J.D. Cohen, Reproducibility distinguishes conscious from nonconscious neural representations, Science 327 (2010) 97–99.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.C.M. Fong, S.C. Hui, Multimedia Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, England, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

V. Pallotta, A. Soro, E. Vargiu, eds., Advances in Distributed Agent-Based Retrieval Tools, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Bravenboer, E. Visser, Designing Syntax Embeddings and Assimilations for Language Libraries, in: H. Giese (Ed.), Models in Software Engineering: Workshops and Symposia at MoDELS 2007, Nashville, TN, USA, September 30 - October 5, 2007, Reports and Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 34–46.

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 Progress in Organic Coatings.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, When It Comes To Mental Health, Parents Shouldn’t Worry Who Their Children Are Friends With, 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, Evidence Is Insufficient To Support the Administration’s Proposed Changes to AFDC Work Programs, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. Bermudez, The effects of Hispanic parent-adolescent biculturalism disparity on male adolescent delinquency, 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]

B. Weiser, B. Protess, New Chief for U.S. Crime Division, New York Times (2016) B5.

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	Progress in Organic Coatings
Abbreviation	Prog. Org. Coat.
ISSN (print)	0300-9440
Scope	General Chemical Engineering Organic Chemistry Materials Chemistry Surfaces, Coatings and Films