How to format your references using the Separations citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Separations. 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

Lamacraft, A. Physics. New SQUID on the Bloch. Science 2015, 347, 232–233.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schuster-Böckler, B.; Lehner, B. Chromatin Organization Is a Major Influence on Regional Mutation Rates in Human Cancer Cells. Nature 2012, 488, 504–507.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, V.N.; Kataoka, N.; Dreyfuss, G. Role of the Nonsense-Mediated Decay Factor HUpf3 in the Splicing-Dependent Exon-Exon Junction Complex. Science 2001, 293, 1832–1836.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yokouchi, Y.; Ikeda, M.; Inuzuka, Y.; Yukawa, T. Strong Emission of Methyl Chloride from Tropical Plants. Nature 2002, 416, 163–165.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bachmann, H.; Steinle, A.; Hahn, V. Bauen Mit Betonfertigteilen Im Hochbau; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2010; ISBN 9783433600429.

An edited book

The Impact of Virtual, Remote, and Real Logistics Labs: First International Conference, ImViReLL 2012 Bremen, Germany, February 28 – March 1, 2012 Proceedings; Uckelmann, D., Scholz-Reiter, B., Rügge, I., Hong, B., Rizzi, A., Eds.; Communications in Computer and Information Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; Vol. 282; ISBN 9783642288159.

A chapter in an edited book

Stepien, A.; Koivurova, T.; Gremsperger, A.; Niemi, H. Arctic Indigenous Peoples and the Challenge of Climate Change. In Arctic Marine Governance: Opportunities for Transatlantic Cooperation; Tedsen, E., Cavalieri, S., Kraemer, R.A., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014; pp. 71–99 ISBN 9783642385940.

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 Separations.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Who Do You Think You Are? Most Detailed Genetic Map Of The British Isles Reveals All Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/who-do-you-think-you-are-most-detailed-genetic-map-british-isles-reveals-all/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Air Force Stock Fund: Hydrazine Sales Consistent with the Commercial Space Launch Act; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1991;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ghafoori, H.D. Working with Muslim Children and Families: A Training Program for Child Welfare Social Workers. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2010.

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

Kishkovsky, S. Former Killing Ground Becomes Shrine to Stalin’s Victims. New York Times 2007, A4.

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	Separations
Abbreviation	Separations
ISSN (online)	2297-8739
Scope