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

F. Fais. Making contacts online. Nature 2007, 447 (7148), 1140.

A journal article with 2 authors

N. Tulina, E. Matunis. Control of stem cell self-renewal in Drosophila spermatogenesis by JAK-STAT signaling. Science 2001, 294 (5551), 2546–2549.

A journal article with 3 authors

J. Haas, W. Creamer, A. Ruiz. Dating the Late Archaic occupation of the Norte Chico region in Peru. Nature 2004, 432 (7020), 1020–1023.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

E. Milotti, V. Vyshemirsky, M. Sega, S. Stella, R. Chignola. Metabolic scaling in solid tumours. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 1938.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

J.G. Speight. Environmental Analysis and Technology for the Refining Industry; John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

Cotton, Water, Salts and Soums: Economic and Ecological Restructuring in Khorezm, Uzbekistan; Martius, C., Rudenko, I., Lamers, J. P. A., Vlek, P. L. G., Eds.; Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

X.A. Wang, J. Ma, X. Yang, Y. Wei. Security Analysis of Two Identity Based Proxy Re-encryption Schemes in Multi-user Networks. In Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XIX; Nguyen, N. T., Kowalczyk, R., Xhafa, F., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015; pp 69–88.

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 Advanced Organic Chemistry Letters.

Blog post

E. Andrew. Couple Found Holding Hands For 700 Years https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/couple-found-holding-hands-700-years/ (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. Computers: Information on the Patent and Trademark Office Automation Program; IMTEC-86-4FS; U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

A.M. Watson. A novel role for MUC7 mucin glycoprotein in the innate immunity and genetic propensity of asthma. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2009.

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

J. Hodgman. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times. August 18, 2017, p MM20.

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
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