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]

P. Buston, Social hierarchies: size and growth modification in clownfish, Nature 424 (2003) 145–146.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. Porcello, S. Hsi, Science education. Crowdsourcing and curating online education resources, Science 341 (2013) 240–241.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y. Haile-Selassie, G. Suwa, T.D. White, Late Miocene teeth from Middle Awash, Ethiopia, and early hominid dental evolution, Science 303 (2004) 1503–1505.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C.M. O’Reilly, S.R. Alin, P.-D. Plisnier, A.S. Cohen, B.A. McKee, Climate change decreases aquatic ecosystem productivity of Lake Tanganyika, Africa, Nature 424 (2003) 766–768.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L.A. Belfiore, Physical Properties of Macromolecules, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

M.S. Rahman, E. Tomita, eds., WALCOM: Algorithms and Computation: 9th International Workshop, WALCOM 2015, Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 26-28, 2015. Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Y.T. Hwang, C.N. Chu, The Design of Adaptive Error Feedback Music Ear-Training System with Image Cues, in: J.A. Jacko (Ed.), Human-Computer Interaction. Users and Applications: 14th International Conference, HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part IV, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 35–38.

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]

B. Taub, Why Do We Have Nightmares?, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/why-do-we-have-nightmares/ (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, 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]

T. Wang, Talking to Strangers: Chinese Youth and Social Media, Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, 2013.

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, Along the Heated Trail of the Man Who Created Muslim Superheroes, New York Times (2011) C8.

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