How to format your references using the Catalysis Letters citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Catalysis Letters. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Bradshaw RA (2013) Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012). Nature 493:306

A journal article with 2 authors

Gogotsi Y, Simon P (2011) Materials science. True performance metrics in electrochemical energy storage. Science 334:917–918

A journal article with 3 authors

Thibodeaux CJ, Melançon CE, Liu H-W (2007) Unusual sugar biosynthesis and natural product glycodiversification. Nature 446:1008–1016

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Rotter M, Wang Z-S, Boothroyd AT, et al (2014) Mechanism of spin crossover in LaCoO3 resolved by shape magnetostriction in pulsed magnetic fields. Sci Rep 4:7003

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Holzman G CVT VTS De, Raffel T CVT VTS Su (2015) Surgical Patient Care for Veterinary Technicians and Nurses. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Trausan-Matu S, Boyer KE, Crosby M, Panourgia K (2014) Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 12th International Conference, ITS 2014, Honolulu, HI, USA, June 5-9, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Smilowitz NR, Saric M (2016) Catheter-Based Atrial Septal Defect Closure. In: Picard MH, Passeri JJ, Dal-Bianco JP (eds) Intraprocedural Imaging of Cardiovascular Interventions. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 49–58

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 Catalysis Letters.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) Home-Brewed Morphine A Step Closer. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/home-brewed-drugs-step-closer/. 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 (1986) Developing and Using Questionnaires. 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

Chahine J (2013) Social workers’ perceptions of individuals who use drugs and alcohol problematically. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Weiser B, Protess B, Goldstein M, Rashbaum WK (2017) A U.S. Attorney Who Shunned Politics Meets an End Tinged by Them. 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	Catalysis Letters
Abbreviation	Catal. Letters
ISSN (print)	1011-372X
ISSN (online)	1572-879X
Scope	Catalysis General Chemistry