How to format your references using the International Journal of Cosmetic Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Cosmetic Science. 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

Chapais B. Anthropology. The deep social structure of humankind. Science. 2011;331(6022):1276–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Picollo A and Pusch M. Chloride/proton antiporter activity of mammalian CLC proteins ClC-4 and ClC-5. Nature. 2005;436(7049):420–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bradley P, Misura KMS, and Baker D. Toward high-resolution de novo structure prediction for small proteins. Science. 2005;309(5742):1868–71.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zacchi P, Gostissa M, Uchida T, Salvagno C, Avolio F, Volinia S, Ronai Z, Blandino G, Schneider C, and Del Sal G. The prolyl isomerase Pin1 reveals a mechanism to control p53 functions after genotoxic insults. Nature. 2002;419(6909):853–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fogel DB, Liu D, and Keller JM. Fundamentals of Computational Intelligence. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 2016.

An edited book

Werle G, Fernandez L, and Vormbaum M, ed. Africa and the International Criminal Court. Vol 1 T.M.C. Asser Press: The Hague; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Lafrenz K. From Crisis to Value Increase: How Companies Can Attain High Profits During a Restructuring Phase. In: Blatz M, Kraus K-J and Haghani S, editors. Corporate Restructuring: Finance in Times of Crisis. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2006.

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 Cosmetic Science.

Blog post

Hamilton K. Male Mice Woo Females With “Love Songs” Similar to Songbirds. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/male-mice-woo-females-love-songs-similar-songbirds/.

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. Medicare: Post-Hearing Questions Related to Financial and Information Technology Management. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

De los Santos E. Increasing the psychological well-being of undocumented Latino youth students in California: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA; 2014.

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

Greenhouse L. Justices’ Vote in Death Case Is Close Again, but Differing. New York Times. 2007;A16.

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 Cosmetic Science
ISSN (print)	0142-5463
ISSN (online)	1468-2494
Scope