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

P. C. Nelson, Science, 2012, 337, 1045–1046.

A journal article with 2 authors

A. A. N. Patrinos and R. A. Bradley, Science, 2009, 325, 949–950.

A journal article with 3 authors

L. D. Hurst, E. J. Feil and E. P. C. Rocha, Nature, 2006, 442, E11-2; discussion E12.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

T. M. Suchyna, S. E. Tape, R. E. Koeppe 2nd, O. S. Andersen, F. Sachs and P. A. Gottlieb, Nature, 2004, 430, 235–240.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

W. Doerfler, Foreign DNA in Mammalian Systems, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, Germany, 2007.

An edited book

P. S. Srivastava, A. Narula and S. Srivastava, Eds., Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Markers, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

L. I. Koroleva and D. M. Zashchirinskii, in Advances in Nanoscale Magnetism: Proceedings of the International Conference on Nanoscale Magnetism ICNM-2007 June 25–29, Istanbul, Turkey, eds. B. Aktas and F. Mikailov, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009, pp. 89–111.

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, Computing, Uncertainty … Quantum Leaps and Bounds of 2014, https://www.iflscience.com/physics/computing-uncertainty-quantum-leaps-and-bounds-2014/, (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, Customs Automation: Internal Control Weaknesses in Customs’ Revenue Collection Process, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

G. Rodriguez, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

K. Kelly and J. H. Davis, New York Times, 2017, A10.

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

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