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

Laloë F (2003) Obituary: Jean Brossel (1918-2003). Nature 422:274

A journal article with 2 authors

Blaser MJ, Kirschner D (2007) The equilibria that allow bacterial persistence in human hosts. Nature 449:843–849

A journal article with 3 authors

Bruins HJ, van der Plicht J, Mazar A (2003) 14C dates from Tel Rehov: Iron-Age chronology, pharaohs, and Hebrew kings. Science 300:315–318

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Putterman S, Evans PG, Vazquez G, Weninger K (2001) Is there a simple theory of sonoluminescence? Nature 409:782–783

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Curtis PM (2011) Maintaining Mission Critical Systems in a 24/7 Environment. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Tamin MN (2014) Solder Joint Reliability Assessment: Finite Element Simulation Methodology. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Hens N, Shkedy Z, Aerts M, Faes C, Van Damme P, Beutels P (2012) Estimating the Force of Infection from Incidence and Prevalence. In: Shkedy Z, Aerts M, Faes C, Van Damme P, Beutels P (eds) Modeling Infectious Disease Parameters Based on Serological and Social Contact Data: A Modern Statistical Perspective. Springer, New York, NY, pp 79–88

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 Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) Digital Metamaterials Get Us Closer to Invisibility Cloaks. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/digital-metamaterials-get-us-closer-invisibility-cloaks/. 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 (2014) Tobacco Product Regulation: Most FDA Spending Funded Public Education, Regulatory Science, and Compliance and Enforcement Activities. 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

Sanchez-Mejia ZM (2013) Monsoon dependent ecosystems: Implications of the vertical distribution of soil moisture on land surface-atmosphere interactions. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Kelly S (1993) Be of Good Fear. New York Times 745

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