How to format your references using the Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of 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	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

Poppy G. 2015. Science must prepare for impact. Nature. 526(7571):7

A journal article with 2 authors

Curry Rogers K, Forster CA. 2001. The last of the dinosaur titans: a new sauropod from Madagascar. Nature. 412(6846):530–34

A journal article with 3 authors

Fang Y, Seong N-H, Dlott DD. 2008. Measurement of the distribution of site enhancements in surface-enhanced Raman scattering. Science. 321(5887):388–92

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Stuchell-Brereton MD, Skalicky JJ, Kieffer C, Karren MA, Ghaffarian S, Sundquist WI. 2007. ESCRT-III recognition by VPS4 ATPases. Nature. 449(7163):740–44

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deacon M, Derry A, Mirfendereski D. 2004. Inflation-indexed Securities. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd

An edited book

Olek MJ, ed. 2005. Multiple Sclerosis: Etiology, Diagnosis, and New Treatment Strategies. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press

A chapter in an edited book

Binley A, Kemna A. 2005. DC Resistivity and Induced Polarization Methods. In Hydrogeophysics, ed Y Rubin, SS Hubbard, pp. 129–56. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

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 Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry.

Blog post

Hamilton K. 2017. “Cave Squeaker” Frog Found For First Time In 55 Years. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 2016. Telecommunications: Information on Low Power Television, FCC’s Spectrum Incentive Auction, and Unlicensed Spectrum Use. GAO-17-135, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ramirez C. 2017. A Policy Analysis: Assembly Bill 1421 or Laura’s Law. Doctoral dissertation thesis. California State University, Long Beach

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

Díaz ME, Neuman W. 2013. U.S. Filmmaker Held in Venezuela Sought to Show Political Divide, Friends Say. New York Times, April 27, p. A9

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Anal. Chem. (Palo Alto Calif.)
ISSN (print)	1936-1327
ISSN (online)	1936-1335
Scope	Analytical Chemistry