How to format your references using the Analytical Methods citation style

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

L. Laursen, Nature, 2010, 468, S2-4.

A journal article with 2 authors

F. L. Hitti and S. A. Siegelbaum, Nature, 2014, 508, 88–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

X. Yu, L. Jin and Z. H. Zhou, Nature, 2008, 453, 415–419.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

M. E. Byrne, R. Barley, M. Curtis, J. M. Arroyo, M. Dunham, A. Hudson and R. A. Martienssen, Nature, 2000, 408, 967–971.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

J. Laycock and K. Meeran, Integrated Endocrinology, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

K. Bergman, Photonic Network-on-Chip Design, Springer, New York, NY, 2014, vol. 68.

A chapter in an edited book

M. Grounds and D. Kudenko, in Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems III. Adaptation and Multi-Agent Learning: 5th, 6th, and 7th European Symposium, ALAMAS 2005-2007 on Adaptive and Learning Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Revised Selected Papers, eds. K. Tuyls, A. Nowe, Z. Guessoum and D. Kudenko, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008, pp. 60–74.

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 Methods.

Blog post

E. Andrew, Researchers Discover Unique Aging ‘Signature’ In Brains Of Mice And Humans, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/researchers-discover-unique-aging-signature-brains-mice-and-humans/, (accessed 30 October 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, Aviation Security: Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening System Faces Significant Implementation Challenges, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

S. P. Marchek, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 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

G. G. Gustines, New York Times, 2015, B5.

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 Methods
Abbreviation	Anal. Methods
ISSN (print)	1759-9660
ISSN (online)	1759-9679
Scope	General Chemical Engineering Analytical Chemistry General Engineering