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

Tyler RH (2008) Strong ocean tidal flow and heating on moons of the outer planets. Nature 456:770–772

A journal article with 2 authors

Kishore S, Stamm S (2006) The snoRNA HBII-52 regulates alternative splicing of the serotonin receptor 2C. Science 311:230–232

A journal article with 3 authors

Mendell JT, ap Rhys CMJ, Dietz HC (2002) Separable roles for rent1/hUpf1 in altered splicing and decay of nonsense transcripts. Science 298:419–422

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Seehawer M, Heinzmann F, D’Artista L, et al (2018) Author Correction: Necroptosis microenvironment directs lineage commitment in liver cancer. Nature

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paul CR (2011) Transmission Lines in Digital Systems for EMC Practitioners. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Chaudhuri S (2013) Hyperspectral Image Fusion. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Brueggemann T, Hurink JL, Vredeveld T, Woeginger GJ (2008) Very Large-Scale Neighborhoods with Performance Guarantees for Minimizing Makespan on Parallel Machines. In: Kaklamanis C, Skutella M (eds) Approximation and Online Algorithms: 5th International Workshop, WAOA 2007, Eilat, Israel, October 11-12, 2007. Revised Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 41–54

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

Andrew E (2014) Solar Dynamics Observatory Releases Highlights From Year Four. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/solar-dynamics-observatory-releases-highlights-year-four/. 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 (2007) Digital Television Transition: Increased Federal Planning and Risk Management Could Further Facilitate the DTV Transition. 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

Leonard JM (2001) The Effect of Manufacturing Establishments on Local Area per Capita Personal Income in the U.S. 1967-1990. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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

Kenigsberg B (2017) Film Series. New York Times C26

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