How to format your references using the Analytical Chemistry Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Analytical Chemistry Research. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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]

D.R. Shelly, Periodic, chaotic, and doubled earthquake recurrence intervals on the deep San Andreas fault, Science 328 (2010) 1385–1388.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.C. Sanguinetti, M. Tristani-Firouzi, hERG potassium channels and cardiac arrhythmia, Nature 440 (2006) 463–469.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

V.C. Bennett, A.D. Brandon, A.P. Nutman, Coupled 142Nd-143Nd isotopic evidence for Hadean mantle dynamics, Science 318 (2007) 1907–1910.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Sinclair, S.G. Fillman, M.J. Webster, C.S. Weickert, Dysregulation of glucocorticoid receptor co-factors FKBP5, BAG1 and PTGES3 in prefrontal cortex in psychotic illness, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3539.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Nölte, ICP Emissionsspektrometrie für Praktiker, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

D. Riaño, ed., Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures: ECAI 2008 Workshop, K4HelP 2008, Patras, Greece, July 21, 2008, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Gamble, C. Carneiro, R.A. Barazi, Working with a Database: Active Record, in: C. Carneiro, R.A. Barazi (Eds.), Beginning Rails 4, Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2013: pp. 61–80.

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 Research.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, Democrat And Republican Lawmakers Rally Against Anti-Vaxxer Movement, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/democrat-republican-lawmakers-rally-against-antivaxxer-movement/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Expenditures for Public Affairs Activities, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Rivers, Bridging the knowledge gap between the Baby Boomers and the multigenerations, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2012.

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]

M. Wines, Asked for Data on Voters, States Give Trump Panel a Bipartisan ‘No,’ New York Times (2017) A12.

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 Chemistry Research
Abbreviation	Anal. Chem. Res.
ISSN (print)	2214-1812
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