How to format your references using the Progress in Surface Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Progress in Surface Science. 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. Ruiz, The early heat loss evolution of Mars and their implications for internal and environmental history, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4338.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Y. Neuman, Y. Cohen, A vectorial semantics approach to personality assessment, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4761.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.W. Moore, L.Y. Jan, Y.N. Jan, hamlet, a binary genetic switch between single- and multiple- dendrite neuron morphology, Science 297 (2002) 1355–1358.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Sambashivan, Y. Liu, M.R. Sawaya, M. Gingery, D. Eisenberg, Amyloid-like fibrils of ribonuclease A with three-dimensional domain-swapped and native-like structure, Nature 437 (2005) 266–269.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B.T. O’Hara, B. Malisow, CCSP® (ISC) 2® Certified Cloud Security Professional Official Study Guide, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

A. Lugmayr, ed., Enterprise Applications and Services in the Finance Industry: 7th International Workshop, FinanceCom 2014, Sydney, Australia, December 2014, Revised Papers, 1st ed. 2015, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.W. Bialek, Critical Interrelations Between ICT and Electricity System, in: Z. Lukszo, G. Deconinck, M.P.C. Weijnen (Eds.), Securing Electricity Supply in the Cyber Age: Exploring the Risks of Information and Communication Technology in Tomorrow’s Electricity Infrastructure, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2010: pp. 53–70.

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 Surface Science.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, Russia Is Using An Ingenious Method To Stop People Abusing Disabled Parking Spots, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/ingenius-method-russia-using-stop-people-abusing-disabled-parking-spots/ (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, NASA Management Challenges: Human Capital and Other Critical Areas Need to be Addressed, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.J. Builes, Inferring Function: A Study of Three Prehistoric Structures in El Pital, Puerto López, Manabí, Ecuador, Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, 2015.

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]

M. Corkery, Sales Drop at Macy’s Punishes Its Stock, New York Times (2017) 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 Surface Science
Abbreviation	Prog. Surf. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0079-6816
Scope	Surfaces, Coatings and Films Condensed Matter Physics Surfaces and Interfaces