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

Zeilinger, A. The Quantum Centennial. Nature 2000, 408, 639–641.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hammock, E.A.D.; Young, L.J. Microsatellite Instability Generates Diversity in Brain and Sociobehavioral Traits. Science 2005, 308, 1630–1634.

A journal article with 3 authors

McDonald, J.J.; Teder-Sälejärvi, W.A.; Ward, L.M. Multisensory Integration and Crossmodal Attention Effects in the Human Brain. Science 2001, 292, 1791.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dai, Z.; Keating, E.; Bacon, D.; Viswanathan, H.; Stauffer, P.; Jordan, A.; Pawar, R. Probabilistic Evaluation of Shallow Groundwater Resources at a Hypothetical Carbon Sequestration Site. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adámek, J. Foundations of Coding; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 1991; ISBN 9781118033265.

An edited book

Lowes, T. Pre-Hospital Anesthesia Handbook; Gospel, A., Griffiths, A., Henning, J., Eds.; 2nd ed. 2016.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; ISBN 9783319230894.

A chapter in an edited book

Elder, J.H. Perceptual Organization of Shape. In Shape Perception in Human and Computer Vision: An Interdisciplinary Perspective; Dickinson, S.J., Pizlo, Z., Eds.; Springer: London, 2013; pp. 71–83 ISBN 9781447151944.

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

Taub, B. Long Term Cocaine And Crystal Meth Use May Hinder Moral Judgement (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 Intercity Passenger Rail: Amtrak’s Management of Northeast Corridor Improvements Demonstrates Need for Applying Best Practices; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2004;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Brown, O. Business and IT Leaders’ Behavioral Affects on Alignment and Project Outcome: A Comparative Leadership Study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ, 2008.

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

Markoff, J. Exploring the Sea, No Sailors Needed. New York Times 2016, B1.

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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