How to format your references using the Analyst citation style

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

A. L. Cox, Science, 2015, 349, 790–791.

A journal article with 2 authors

M. Kronenberg and W. L. Havran, Nature, 2014, 506, 42–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

S. T. Fiske, L. T. Harris and A. J. C. Cuddy, Science, 2004, 306, 1482–1483.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

C. A. Hill, A. N. Fox, R. J. Pitts, L. B. Kent, P. L. Tan, M. A. Chrystal, A. Cravchik, F. H. Collins, H. M. Robertson and L. J. Zwiebel, Science, 2002, 298, 176–178.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

E. Grotewold, J. Chappell and E. A. Kellogg, Plant Genes, Genomes and Genetics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

W. C. S. Meng, H. Y. S. Cheung, D. T. Y. Lam and S. S. M. Ng, Eds., Minimally Invasive Coloproctology: Advances in Techniques and Technology, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 1st ed. 2015., 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

P. Aula and J. Heinonen, in The Reputable Firm: How Digitalization of Communication Is Revolutionizing Reputation Management, ed. J. Heinonen, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016, pp. 99–119.

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 Analyst.

Blog post

B. Taub, Practically Unknown STI Could Have Infected Huge Numbers Of People Without Them Knowing Anything About It, (accessed 30 October 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, Commercial Aviation: Factors Affecting Efforts to Improve Air Service at Small Community Airports, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

P. Patra, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

M. Wilson, New York Times, 2017, A16.

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	Analyst
Abbreviation	Analyst
ISSN (print)	0003-2654
ISSN (online)	1364-5528
Scope	Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Electrochemistry Spectroscopy Environmental Chemistry