How to format your references using the Atoms citation style

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

Jenkins, A. Graduate Journal: One of Those Days. Nature 2004, 427, 870.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krishnamurthy, H.; Gouaux, E. X-Ray Structures of LeuT in Substrate-Free Outward-Open and Apo Inward-Open States. Nature 2012, 481, 469–474.

A journal article with 3 authors

González, M.C.; Hidalgo, C.A.; Barabási, A.-L. Understanding Individual Human Mobility Patterns. Nature 2008, 453, 779–782.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Seifermann, S.M.; Réthoré, C.; Muller, T.; Bräse, S. Soccer Goes BOXing: Synthetic Access to Novel [6:0] Hexakis[(Bisoxazolinyl)Methano]Fullerenes. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2817.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sears, R.W.; Chard, K.M. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2016; ISBN 9781118691403.

An edited book

New Strategies to Advance Pre/Diabetes Care: Integrative Approach by PPPM; Mozaffari, M.S., Ed.; Advances in Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2013; Vol. 3; ISBN 9789400759701.

A chapter in an edited book

da Veiga, L.B.; Lipnikov, K.; Manzini, G. Mimetic Discretization of Bilinear Forms. In The Mimetic Finite Difference Method for Elliptic Problems; Lipnikov, K., Manzini, G., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; pp. 91–113 ISBN 9783319026626.

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 Atoms.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. Five Super-Earths Are Crowding Around A Distant Star Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/five-super-earths-are-crowding-around-a-distant-star/ (accessed on 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 Transit Labor Arrangements: Most Transit Agencies Report Impacts Are Minimal; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2001;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jenrich, M.A. “To Treat Her as a Woman”: African American Women and Respectability in New York, 1860-1890. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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

Shpigel, B. Return of Jets’ Decker Is Clouded by Injury. New York Times 2016, D6.

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	Atoms
Abbreviation	Atoms
ISSN (online)	2218-2004
Scope