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]

P. Smaglik, Building Nordic networks, Nature. 420 (2002) A3, A5, A7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.J. Buehler, H. Gao, Dynamical fracture instabilities due to local hyperelasticity at crack tips, Nature. 439 (2006) 307–310.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N. Shankar, A.S. Baghdayan, M.S. Gilmore, Modulation of virulence within a pathogenicity island in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis, Nature. 417 (2002) 746–750.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

N.R. Iverson, D. Cohen, T.S. Hooyer, U.H. Fischer, M. Jackson, P.L. Moore, G. Lappegard, J. Kohler, Effects of basal debris on glacier flow, Science. 301 (2003) 81–84.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.B. Rubin, Fundamentals of Biophysics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

T. Bandrova, M. Konecny, S. Zlatanova, eds., Thematic Cartography for the Society, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Plastino, A.R. Plastino, Information and Thermal Physics, in: B.R. Frieden, R.A. Gatenby (Eds.), Exploratory Data Analysis Using Fisher Information, Springer, London, 2007: pp. 119–154.

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]

T. Hale, Developing A Warped Sense Of Humor Could Be An Early Sign Of Dementia, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/developing-warped-sense-humor-could-be-early-sign-dementia/ (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, Transportation Security Administration’s Processes for Designating and Releasing Sensitive Security Information, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.S. Miles, Elicitation of a Program’s Behaviors, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2015.

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]

J. Goldstein, Daughter of Slain Police Officer Is Born, Two Years After Her Father’s Death, New York Times. (2017) A23.

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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