How to format your references using the Topics in Catalysis citation style

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

Pemberton S (2014) Perspective: The fix is in. Nature 515:S165

A journal article with 2 authors

Coudreuse D, Nurse P (2010) Driving the cell cycle with a minimal CDK control network. Nature 468:1074–1079

A journal article with 3 authors

Ferrand Y, Crump MP, Davis AP (2007) A synthetic lectin analog for biomimetic disaccharide recognition. Science 318:619–622

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Farnham TL, Schleicher DG, Woodney LM, et al (2001) Imaging and photometry of comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) before perihelion and after breakup. Science 292:1348–1353

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saint-Dizier P (2014) Musical Rhetoric. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Noble J (2011) Pro SharePoint 2010 Search. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Salonitis K, Pandremenos J, Paralikas J, Chryssolouris G (2009) Multifunctional Materials Used in Automotive Industry: A Critical Review. In: Pantelakis S, Rodopoulos C (eds) Engineering Against Fracture: Proceedings of the 1st Conference. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 59–70

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 Topics in Catalysis.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Rare Blue-Eyed Lemurs Could Go Extinct In 11 Years. In: IFLScience. 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 (1990) Agriculture ADP Procurement: Contracting and Market Share Information. 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

Boyer TH (2008) Removal of natural organic matter by anion exchange: Multiscale experimentation and mathematical modeling. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Oestreich JR (2017) Highways and Byways of an Austrian Maestro. New York Times AR11

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	Topics in Catalysis
Abbreviation	Top. Catal.
ISSN (print)	1022-5528
ISSN (online)	1572-9028
Scope	Catalysis General Chemistry