How to format your references using the Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Marquis RJ (2004) Ecology. Herbivores rule. Science 305:619–621

A journal article with 2 authors

Pasteris JD, Wopenka B (2002) Laser-Raman spectroscopy: images of the Earth’s earliest fossils? Nature 420:476–7; discussion 477

A journal article with 3 authors

Phillips BL, Casey WH, Karlsson M (2000) Bonding and reactivity at oxide mineral surfaces from model aqueous complexes. Nature 404:379–382

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kim Y, Strelcov E, Hwang IR, et al (2013) Correlative multimodal probing of ionically-mediated electromechanical phenomena in simple oxides. Sci Rep 3:2924

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Subramanian MN (2013) Plastics Additives and Testing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Kock N (2010) Evolutionary Psychology and Information Systems Research: A New Approach to Studying the Effects of Modern Technologies on Human Behavior. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Yang X, Yang J (2012) Dominance-based Rough Sets in “?” Incomplete Information System. In: Yang J (ed) Incomplete Information System and Rough Set Theory: Models and Attribute Reductions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 169–192

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 Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Cancer Drug Cures Mice Of Hepatitis B. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2002) Pipeline Safety: Status of Improving Oversight of the Pipeline Industry. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zolfaghari SS (2015) The relationship between folic acid, vitamin B12, and vitamin B6 intakes and depression in women who use hormonal oral contraceptives. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Garner D, Senior J, Jennings D, Gustines GG (2016) Who Needs Wrapping? They’re Already Covered. New York Times C26

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	Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis
Abbreviation	React. Kinet. Mech. Catal.
ISSN (print)	1878-5190
ISSN (online)	1878-5204
Scope	Catalysis Physical and Theoretical Chemistry