How to format your references using the Electrocatalysis citation style

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

1. P. M. Lieberman, Science 343, 1323 (2014).

A journal article with 2 authors

1. M. A. Veronin and B.-B. C. Youan, Science 305, 481 (2004).

A journal article with 3 authors

1. K. Kwak, K. Cho, and S. Kim, Sci. Rep. 3, 2787 (2013).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. L. Wang, Y. Wang, Y. Liang, J. Li, Y. Liu, J. Zhang, A. Zhang, J. Fu, and G. Jiang, Sci. Rep. 3, 2174 (2013).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. F. J. Fabozzi and V. Kothari, Introduction to Securitization (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2008).

An edited book

1. E. Hull, Requirements Engineering, Second Edition (Springer, London, 2005).

A chapter in an edited book

1. R. Hamachi, I. Tsukida, and H. Noda, in Design, User Experience, and Usability. User Experience Design Practice: Third International Conference, DUXU 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014, Proceedings, Part IV, edited by A. Marcus (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014), pp. 32–38.

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 Electrocatalysis.

Blog post

1. A. Carpineti, IFLScience (2017).

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, Tools and Techniques for Improving the Efficiency of Federal Automatic Data Processing Operation (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1974).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. N. Shroff, Efficient Sensing, Summarization and Classification of Videos, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 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. G. Johnson, New York Times D5 (2016).

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	Electrocatalysis
Abbreviation	Electrocatalysis
ISSN (print)	1868-2529
ISSN (online)	1868-5994
Scope	Electrochemistry