How to format your references using the Topics in Catalysis citation style

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

Kampinga HH (2014) Cell biology. A cell death avenue evolved from a life-saving path. Science 344:1341–1342

A journal article with 2 authors

Ban Y, Chen X (2014) Counter-diabatic driving for fast spin control in a two-electron double quantum dot. Sci Rep 4:6258

A journal article with 3 authors

Aoi S, Kunugi T, Fujiwara H (2008) Trampoline effect in extreme ground motion. Science 322:727–730

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chaudhuri J, Tian M, Khuong C, et al (2003) Transcription-targeted DNA deamination by the AID antibody diversification enzyme. Nature 422:726–730

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bayor RH (2017) Fiorello La Guardia. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ziemann O (2008) POF Handbook: Optical Short Range Transmission Systems, Second edition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Baranzini M, Mirante A (2016) The Celebration of Oxbridge Scientists by Italian Economists and Institutions. In: Mirante A (ed) A Compendium of Italian Economists at Oxbridge: Contributions to the Evolution of Economic Thinking. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 193–199

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 Topics in Catalysis.

Blog post

Luntz S (2016) Single Cure Found For Three Neglected Diseases. 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 (2013) TSA Explosives Detection Canine Program: Actions Needed to Analyze Data and Ensure Canine Teams Are Effectively Utilized. 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

Barkis B (2017) How Do Highly Engaged Employees and Managers Find Meaning in Their Work? Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Hernández JC, Drucker J (2017) Wooing China Investors With the Trump Name And Offers of U.S. Visas. New York Times A18

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	Topics in Catalysis
Abbreviation	Top. Catal.
ISSN (print)	1022-5528
ISSN (online)	1572-9028
Scope	Catalysis General Chemistry