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]

K.A. Allen, Geochemistry: When carbon escaped from the sea, Nature 518 (2015) 176–177.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.A. Hayes, B.J. Feenstra, Video-speed electronic paper based on electrowetting, Nature 425 (2003) 383–385.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Bylinskii, D. Gangloff, V. Vuletić, Friction. Tuning friction atom-by-atom in an ion-crystal simulator, Science 348 (2015) 1115–1118.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K. Kashiwaya, S. Ochiai, H. Sakai, T. Kawai, Orbit-related long-term climate cycles revealed in a 12-Myr continental record from Lake Baikal, Nature 410 (2001) 71–74.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D.A. Hunter, A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

S. Tsumoto, T. Yamaguchi, M. Numao, H. Motoda, eds., Active Mining: Second International Workshop, AM 2003, Maebashi, Japan, October 28, 2003. Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G.F. Sensabaugh, Microbial Community Profiling for the Characterisation of Soil Evidence: Forensic Considerations, in: K. Ritz, L. Dawson, D. Miller (Eds.), Criminal and Environmental Soil Forensics, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2009: pp. 49–60.

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 Progress in Organic Coatings.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, Anxiety-Inducing Medical Case Of “Penile Strangulation” Has A Happy Ending, IFLScience (2017).

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, Data Base Management Systems--Without Careful Planning There Can Be Problems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.T. Tucker, Structure-property stress state dependent relationships under varying strain rates, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, 2009.

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. Kelly, Op-art; Sub-liminal, New York Times (2000) A33.

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