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

(1)

Aiken, C. HIV: Antiviral Action Countered by Nef. Nature 2015, 526 (7572), 202–203.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Jackson, S. T.; Hobbs, R. J. Ecological Restoration in the Light of Ecological History. Science 2009, 325 (5940), 567–569.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Grey, M.; Haggart, J. W.; Smith, P. L. Variation in Evolutionary Patterns across the Geographic Range of a Fossil Bivalve. Science 2008, 322 (5905), 1238–1241.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Singhal, A.; Arora, G.; Sajid, A.; Maji, A.; Bhat, A.; Virmani, R.; Upadhyay, S.; Nandicoori, V. K.; Sengupta, S.; Singh, Y. Regulation of Homocysteine Metabolism by Mycobacterium Tuberculosis S-Adenosylhomocysteine Hydrolase. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2264.

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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Shi, Z.-J. Homogeneous Catalysis for Unreactive Bond Activation; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

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Long-Term Outcomes of Epilepsy Surgery in Adults and Children; Malmgren, K., Baxendale, S., Cross, J. H., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

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Kent, E. J. Tyrannical Beasts: Male Witchcraft in Early Modern English Culture. In Emotions in the History of Witchcraft; Kounine, L., Ostling, M., Eds.; Palgrave Macmillan UK: London, 2016; pp 77–94.

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, E. A History Of Sugar – The Food Nobody Needs, But Everyone Craves. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/history-sugar-food-nobody-needs-everyone-craves/ (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. Career and Technical Education: States Have Broad Flexibility in Implementing Perkins IV; GAO-09-683; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2009.

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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Smith, B. Analysis of Hydraulic and Financial Operations of a Recycled Water System: A Case Study of the Orange County Water District’s Green Acres Project. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2013.

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

(1)

Anderson, J. Pinning Award Hopes on a Powerful Song. New York Times. January 5, 2017, p C1.

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