How to format your references using the Progress in Surface Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Progress in Surface 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

[1]

G. Schilling, ASTRONOMY: Neighborhood Gamma Ray Burst Boosts Theory, Science 289 (2000) 29.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Timmermann, L. Menviel, Climate change. What drives climate flip-flops?, Science 325 (2009) 273–274.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E.M. Dunham, P. Favreau, J.M. Carlson, A supershear transition mechanism for cracks, Science 299 (2003) 1557–1559.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

G. Yang, L. Liu, F. Lv, S. Wang, Conjugated polyelectrolyte materials for promoting progenitor cell growth without serum, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1702.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

F. Fu, Advanced Modelling Techniques in Structural Design, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

J.I. Khan, Basic Principles of Forensic Chemistry, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Watanabe, Palm Vein Authentication, in: N.K. Ratha, V. Govindaraju (Eds.), Advances in Biometrics: Sensors, Algorithms and Systems, Springer, London, 2008: pp. 75–88.

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 Progress in Surface Science.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Want To Know Your Risk Of Dying In The Next Five Years? Take The Ubble Age Test, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/want-know-your-risk-dying-next-five-years-take-ubble-age-test/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, U.S. Airlines: Weak Financial Structure Threatens Competition, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Holmstedt, Low voltage switched-current cell and its application, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

A. Ahmed, P. Nunez, A. Blinder, From Haiti to Florida, a Hurricane’s Trail of Disaster and Near Misses, New York Times (2016) A24.

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	Progress in Surface Science
Abbreviation	Prog. Surf. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0079-6816
Scope	Surfaces, Coatings and Films Condensed Matter Physics Surfaces and Interfaces