How to format your references using the Transport in Porous Media citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Transport in Porous Media. 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

Dobson, C.M.: Protein folding and misfolding. Nature. 426, 884–890 (2003)

A journal article with 2 authors

Velicer, G.J., Yu, Y.-T.N.: Evolution of novel cooperative swarming in the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. Nature. 425, 75–78 (2003)

A journal article with 3 authors

Pelli, D.G., Farell, B., Moore, D.C.: The remarkable inefficiency of word recognition. Nature. 423, 752–756 (2003)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jonkheijm, P., van der Schoot, P., Schenning, A.P.H.J., Meijer, E.W.: Probing the solvent-assisted nucleation pathway in chemical self-assembly. Science. 313, 80–83 (2006)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McGee, G.: Bioethics for beginners. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK (2012)

An edited book

Shi, Y., Albada, G.D. van, Dongarra, J., Sloot, P.M.A. eds: Computational Science – ICCS 2007: 7th International Conference, Beijing, China, May 27 - 30, 2007, Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2007)

A chapter in an edited book

Vaclavik, V.A., Christian, E.W.: Starches in Food. In: Christian, E.W. (ed.) Essentials of Food Science. pp. 39–51. Springer, New York, NY (2014)

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 Transport in Porous Media.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Astronomers Spot Square Hole In Sun

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: Aviation Safety: Enhanced Oversight and Improved Availability of Risk- Based Data Could Further Improve Safety. 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

Johnson, K.C.: Teacher and parent perceptions of classroom experiences of African American male students in a high school alternative program, (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

Chan, S.: BBC Publishes Pay of Top Stars, Revealing Gender and Racial Gaps, (2017)

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Dobson 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Dobson 2003; Velicer and Yu 2003).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Velicer and Yu 2003)
Three or more authors: (Jonkheijm et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Transport in Porous Media
Abbreviation	Transp. Porous Media
ISSN (print)	0169-3913
ISSN (online)	1573-1634
Scope	General Chemical Engineering Catalysis