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]

J.F. Stebbins, Materials science. Dynamics in ceramics, Science. 297 (2002) 1285–1287.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P.W.H.I. Parren, D.R. Burton, Immunology. Two-in-one designer antibodies, Science. 323 (2009) 1567–1568.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.C. Bergquist, F.M. Williams, C.R. Fisher, Longevity record for deep-sea invertebrate, Nature. 403 (2000) 499–500.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K. Akashi, D. Traver, T. Miyamoto, I.L. Weissman, A clonogenic common myeloid progenitor that gives rise to all myeloid lineages, Nature. 404 (2000) 193–197.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L. Simon, J. Ospina, Closed-Form Solutions for Drug Transport through Controlled-Release Devices in Two and Three Dimensions, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

D.W. Pfaff, ed., Neuroscience in the 21st Century: From Basic to Clinical, Springer, New York, NY, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Dutta, A.E. Kamal, G.N. Rouskas, Grooming Mechanisms in SONET/SDH and Next-Generation SONET/SDH, in: R. Dutta, A.E. Kamal, G.N. Rouskas (Eds.), Traffic Grooming for Optical Networks: Foundations, Techniques, and Frontiers, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2008: pp. 39–55.

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, Hubble Provides Most Detailed Weather Map Ever Constructed for Exoplanet, IFLScience. (2014).

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, Education and Labor: Information on the Departments’ Field Offices, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.F. Wicks, The Self-Concept of Students in Remediation in a Rural Community College in Mississippi, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, 2017.

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. Johnson, Beyond Energy, Matter, Time and Space, New York Times. (2014) D6.

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

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