How to format your references using the International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives. 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 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]

Smaglik P. Salaries in the balance. Nature 2009;457:750–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Sanderson WC, Scherbov S. Average remaining lifetimes can increase as human populations age. Nature 2005;435:811–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Jeong K-H, Kim J, Lee LP. Biologically inspired artificial compound eyes. Science 2006;312:557–61.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Chen C-H, Huang H, Ward CM, Su JT, Schaeffer LV, Guo M, et al. A synthetic maternal-effect selfish genetic element drives population replacement in Drosophila. Science 2007;316:597–600.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hannam J. What Everyone Needs to Know about Tax. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Zhang G, Li C, Liu X, editors. Advance in Barley Sciences: Proceedings of 11th International Barley Genetics Symposium. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Manente M, Minghetti V, Mingotto E. The Analysis of European Reporting Systems for Responsible Tourism and CSR. In: Minghetti V, Mingotto E, editors. Responsible Tourism and CSR: Assessment Systems for Sustainable Development of SMEs in Tourism, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 33–98.

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 International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. When ‘Energy’ Drinks Actually Contained Radioactive Energy. IFLScience 2016.

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. Intercity Passenger Rail: Increasing Amtrak’s Accountability for Its Taxpayer Relief Act Funds. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Gobas M. Affiliate users policy: Solution to multiple ball field users in the city of Artesia. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Burghardt LF. Stories From the Battlefield Inspire a Teacher’s World War II Novel. New York Times 2005:14LI10.

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	International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives
Abbreviation	Int. J. Adhes. Adhes.
ISSN (print)	0143-7496
Scope	General Chemical Engineering Biomaterials Polymers and Plastics