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

Lander GH. 2003. Physics. Sensing electrons on the edge. Science. 301(5636):1057–59

A journal article with 2 authors

Medlock J, Galvani AP. 2009. Optimizing influenza vaccine distribution. Science. 325(5948):1705–8

A journal article with 3 authors

Cubitt TS, Perez-Garcia D, Wolf MM. 2015. Undecidability of the spectral gap. Nature. 528(7581):207–11

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Oinuma I, Ishikawa Y, Katoh H, Negishi M. 2004. The Semaphorin 4D receptor Plexin-B1 is a GTPase activating protein for R-Ras. Science. 305(5685):862–65

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Belliotti RA. 2011. Dante’s Deadly Sins. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell

An edited book

Guang X. 2014. Linear Network Error Correction Coding. New York, NY: Springer. VI, 107 p. 9 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Fehr E. 2008. The Effect of Neuropeptides on Human Trust and Altruism: A Neuroeconomic Perspective. In Hormones and Social Behaviour, ed DW Pfaff, C Kordon, P Chanson, Y Christen, pp. 47–56. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

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

Andrew D. 2017. How Do The Chemicals In Sunscreen Protect Our Skin From Damage? 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. 2011. Federal Student Loans: Patterns in Tuition, Enrollment, and Federal Stafford Loan Borrowing Up to the 2007-08 Loan Limit Increase. GAO-11-470R, 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

Eaddy M. 2008. An empirical assessment of the crosscutting concern problem. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Columbia University

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

Pilon M, Belson K. 2012. Open Is Drawing Record Crowds, but Fans Are Feeling the Squeeze. New York Times, Sep. 4, p. B9

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