How to format your references using the Analytical Chemistry citation style

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

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Dalton, R. Anger as Princeton Closes “inspirational” Museum. Nature 2000, 407 (6806), 825.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Pouille, F.; Scanziani, M. Enforcement of Temporal Fidelity in Pyramidal Cells by Somatic Feed-Forward Inhibition. Science 2001, 293 (5532), 1159–1163.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Sousa-Nunes, R.; Yee, L. L.; Gould, A. P. Fat Cells Reactivate Quiescent Neuroblasts via TOR and Glial Insulin Relays in Drosophila. Nature 2011, 471 (7339), 508–512.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Sekikawa, T.; Kosuge, A.; Kanai, T.; Watanabe, S. Nonlinear Optics in the Extreme Ultraviolet. Nature 2004, 432 (7017), 605–608.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Bersuker, I. B. Electronic Structure and Properties of Transition Metal Compounds; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

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Protein Metabolism and Homeostasis in Aging; Tavernarakis, N., Ed.; Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2010; Vol. 694.

A chapter in an edited book

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Lee, J. A.; Verleysen, M. Topology Preservation. In Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction; Lee, J. A., Verleysen, M., Eds.; Information Science and Statistics; Springer: New York, NY, 2007; pp 133–172.

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 Chemistry.

Blog post

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Andrew, D. Why It’s So Hard To Ignore A Baby’s Cry, According To Science. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-its-so-hard-to-ignore-a-babys-cry-according-to-science/ (accessed 2018-10-30).

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

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Government Accountability Office. Federal Information Systems Remain Highly Vulnerable to Fraudulent, Wasteful, Abusive, and Illegal Practices; MASAD-82-18; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Gossett, J. M. Autobiographical Insights into the Spiritual Psychologies of Jung and Bion. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA, 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

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Vecsey, G. Best Seat in House? It’s in the House. New York Times. July 10, 2011, p SP7.

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	Analytical Chemistry
Abbreviation	Anal. Chem.
ISSN (print)	0003-2700
ISSN (online)	1520-6882
Scope	Analytical Chemistry