How to format your references using the Advanced Organic Chemistry Letters citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advanced Organic Chemistry Letters. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

J.A. Huber. MICROBIAL ECOLOGY. Making methane down deep. Science 2015, 349 (6246), 376–377.

A journal article with 2 authors

K.D. Collerson, M.I. Weisler. Stone adze compositions and the extent of ancient Polynesian voyaging and trade. Science 2007, 317 (5846), 1907–1911.

A journal article with 3 authors

T.-S. Mei, H.H. Patel, M.S. Sigman. Enantioselective construction of remote quaternary stereocentres. Nature 2014, 508 (7496), 340–344.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

A. Saghatelian, Y. Yokobayashi, K. Soltani, M.R. Ghadiri. A chiroselective peptide replicator. Nature 2001, 409 (6822), 797–801.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

W. Godwin. International Construction Contracts; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, 2013.

An edited book

B. Zatt. 3D Video Coding for Embedded Devices: Energy Efficient Algorithms and Architectures; Shafique, M., Bampi, S., Henkel, J., Eds.; Springer, New York, NY, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

M. Lohrmann, M. Reichert. Efficacy-Aware Business Process Modeling. In On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012: Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, DOA-SVI, and ODBASE 2012, Rome, Italy, September 10-14, 2012. Proceedings, Part I; Meersman, R., Panetto, H., Dillon, T., Rinderle-Ma, S., Dadam, P., Zhou, X., Pearson, S., Ferscha, A., Bergamaschi, S., Cruz, I. F., Eds.; Hutchison, D., Kanade, T., Kittler, J., Kleinberg, J. M., Mattern, F., Mitchell, J. C., Naor, M., Nierstrasz, O., Pandu Rangan, C., Steffen, B., et al., Series Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; pp 38–55.

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 Advanced Organic Chemistry Letters.

Blog post

E. Andrew. New Polio Cases In Ukraine And Mali Don’t Mean The Vaccine Is Failing https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-polio-cases-ukraine-and-mali-don-t-mean-vaccine-failing/ (accessed Oct 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

Government Accountability Office. GSA Lease Prospectuses Provide a Reasonable Basis for the Congress To Approve Proposed Space Acquisitions; LCD-80-44; U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

E.M. Boerger. Natural regeneration dynamics of red oak seedlings in Mississippi bottomland forests. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 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

S. Chira. For Mothers Seeking Office, a Familiar Double Standard. New York Times. March 14, 2017, p A11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Advanced Organic Chemistry Letters
ISSN (print)	2348-1889
Scope