How to format your references using the The Journal of Supercritical Fluids citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Supercritical Fluids. 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]

R. Flower, Drug receptors: a long engagement, Nature 415 (2002) 587.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N. Butchart, A.A. Scaife, Removal of chlorofluorocarbons by increased mass exchange between the stratosphere and troposphere in a changing climate, Nature 410 (2001) 799–802.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Cui, T. Emrick, T.P. Russell, Stabilizing liquid drops in nonequilibrium shapes by the interfacial jamming of nanoparticles, Science 342 (2013) 460–463.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Nogués-Bravo, M.B. Araújo, T. Romdal, C. Rahbek, Scale effects and human impact on the elevational species richness gradients, Nature 453 (2008) 216–219.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Vegh, Web Development with the Mac®, Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

N.R. Neelameggham, S. Alam, H. Oosterhof, A. Jha, D. Dreisinger, S. Wang, eds., Rare Metal Technology 2015, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Y.-N. Young, L.C. Espinha, A.M. Nguyen, C.R. Jacobs, Multiscale Modeling of Primary Cilia, in: S. De, W. Hwang, E. Kuhl (Eds.), Multiscale Modeling in Biomechanics and Mechanobiology, Springer, London, 2015: pp. 87–110.

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 The Journal of Supercritical Fluids.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, Ants Use A “Princess Pheromone” To Identify Future Queens, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ants-use-a-princess-pheromone-to-identify-future-queens/ (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, Business Systems Modernization: Internal Revenue Service’s Fiscal Year 2011 Expenditure Plan, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.P. Hess, Exploring the Challenges of Training and Developing Millennials in the Business Environment, Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, 2012.

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]

B. Brantley, A Flock of Shylocks Descends .., New York Times (2017) C2.

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	The Journal of Supercritical Fluids
Abbreviation	J. Supercrit. Fluids
ISSN (print)	0896-8446
Scope	General Chemical Engineering Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics