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

Fortney, J.J. Planetary Science. Looking into the Giant Planets. Science 2004, 305, 1414–1415.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pawson, T.; Nash, P. Assembly of Cell Regulatory Systems through Protein Interaction Domains. Science 2003, 300, 445–452.

A journal article with 3 authors

Morais-Cabral, J.H.; Zhou, Y.; MacKinnon, R. Energetic Optimization of Ion Conduction Rate by the K+ Selectivity Filter. Nature 2001, 414, 37–42.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Alvarez, S.E.; Harikumar, K.B.; Hait, N.C.; Allegood, J.; Strub, G.M.; Kim, E.Y.; Maceyka, M.; Jiang, H.; Luo, C.; Kordula, T.; et al. Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Is a Missing Cofactor for the E3 Ubiquitin Ligase TRAF2. Nature 2010, 465, 1084–1088.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rigo, M. Formal Languages, Automata and Numeration Systems 1; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2014; ISBN 9781119008200.

An edited book

New Approaches to International Law: The European and the American Experiences; Beneyto, J.M., Kennedy, D., Eds.; T. M. C. Asser Press: The Hague, The Netherlands, 2013; ISBN 9789067048781.

A chapter in an edited book

Frey, N.; Fisher, D. Reading and the Young Brain. In Early Childhood and Neuroscience - Links to Development and Learning; Wasserman, L.H., Zambo, D., Eds.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2013; pp. 43–54 ISBN 9789400766709.

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

Davis, J. Surprisingly, Bees Top The List Of Most Deadly Venomous Creatures In Australia Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/surprisingly-bees-top-the-list-of-most-deadly-venomous-creatures-in-australia/ (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 Customs Service Modernization: Actions Needed to Correct Serious ACE Management and Technical Weaknesses; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1999;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Powell, J.R. Ocean Fronts in the Southern California Current System and Their Role in Structuring Zooplankton Distributions, Diel Vertical Migration, and Size Composition. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego: La Jolla, CA, 2013.

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

Greenhouse, L. Justices, 5 to 4, Overturn 3 Texas Death Sentences. New York Times 2007, A22.

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
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