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

Geballe TH (2001) Superconductivity. Super boron. Science 293:223–224

A journal article with 2 authors

Chouard T, Gray N (2010) Glia. Nature 468:213

A journal article with 3 authors

Yoder BL, Bisson R, Beck RD (2010) Steric effects in the chemisorption of vibrationally excited methane on Ni(100). Science 329:553–556

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ma HF, Wang GZ, Jiang WX, Cui TJ (2014) Independent control of differently-polarized waves using anisotropic gradient-index metamaterials. Sci Rep 4:6337

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Overhauser A (2010) Anomalous Effects in Simple Metals. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Kamihira M, Katakura Y, Ito A (2010) Animal Cell Technology: Basic & Applied Aspects: Proceedings of the 21st Annual and International Meeting of the Japanese Association for Animal Cell Technology (JAACT), Fukuoka, Japan, November 24-27, 2008. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Mun H, Park JH (2016) Inflammation and Fibrosis in ADPKD. In: Park JH, Ahn C (eds) Cystogenesis. Springer, Singapore, pp 35–44

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 D (2016) The Sun Will Destroy Earth A Lot Sooner Than You Might Think. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-sun-will-destroy-earth-a-lot-sooner-than-you-might-think/. 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 (1979) Release of Carson City Silver Dollar Bidders List. 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

De los Santos E (2014) Increasing the psychological well-being of undocumented Latino youth students in California: A grant proposal. 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

Feeney K (2009) A Cafe That Caters. New York Times NJ9

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

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