How to format your references using the Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry citation style

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

Fabbiano G (2005) Astronomy. The hunt for intermediate-mass black holes. Science 307:533–534

A journal article with 2 authors

Rogers G, Dragert H (2003) Episodic tremor and slip on the Cascadia subduction zone: the chatter of silent slip. Science 300:1942–1943

A journal article with 3 authors

Alimardani M, Nishio S, Ishiguro H (2013) Humanlike robot hands controlled by brain activity arouse illusion of ownership in operators. Sci Rep 3:2396

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Paul A, Bartels RA, Tobey R, Green H, Weiman S, Christov IP, Murnane MM, Kapteyn HC, Backus S (2003) Quasi-phase-matched generation of coherent extreme-ultraviolet light. Nature 421:51–54

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zirngibl L (2005) Antifungal Azoles. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Nolta JA (2006) Genetic Engineering of Mesenchymal Stem Cells. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Shen L, Peng X, Liu J, Zhao W (2011) Towards Feature-Oriented Variability Reconfiguration in Dynamic Software Product Lines. In: Schmid K (ed) Top Productivity through Software Reuse: 12th International Conference on Software Reuse, ICSR 2011, Pohang, South Korea, June 13-17, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 52–68

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 Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Musician Composes Pi Song On Piano. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/musician-composes-pi-song-piano/. 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 (2008) Intellectual Property: Federal Enforcement Has Generally Increased, but Assessing Performance Could Strengthen Law Enforcement Efforts. 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

Kemp LS (2013) Perspective processing in language comprehension: Embodied efffects depend on the pronoun. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Barker K (2015) Choice for Addicts: Use Again, or Lose Home. New York Times A1

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	Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
Abbreviation	Anal. Bioanal. Chem.
ISSN (print)	1618-2642
ISSN (online)	1618-2650
Scope	Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry