How to format your references using the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry (BJOC). 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

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Van Swygenhoven, H. Science 2002, 296, 66–67

A journal article with 2 authors

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Eberly, J. H.; Yu, T. Science 2007, 316, 555–557

A journal article with 3 authors

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Ferguson, N. M.; Galvani, A. P.; Bush, R. M. Nature 2003, 422, 428–433

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Szabadics, J.; Varga, C.; Molnár, G.; Oláh, S.; Barzó, P.; Tamás, G. Science 2006, 311, 233–235

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Patterson, S. J.; Radtke, J. M. Strategic Communications for Nonprofit Organizations; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2009

An edited book

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Salsa, S. A Primer on PDEs: Models, Methods, Simulations; Vegni, F. M. G., Zaretti, A., Zunino, P., Eds.; UNITEXT; Springer: Milano, 2013

A chapter in an edited book

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Adhikari, A.; Ramachandrarao, P.; Pedrycz, W. Enhancing Quality of Knowledge Synthesized from Multi-Database Mining. In Developing Multi-Database Mining Applications; Ramachandrarao, P., Pedrycz, W., Eds.; Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing; Springer: London, 2010; pp 71–94

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 Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry.

Blog post

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Carpineti, A. ESO Release Incredible View Of The Cat’s Paw Nebula https://www.iflscience.com/space/eso-release-incredible-view-of-the-cat-s-paw-nebula/ (accessed Oct 30, 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

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Government Accountability Office. Homeland Security: DHS Enterprise Architecture Continues to Evolve but Improvements Needed; GAO-07-564; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2007

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Cusick, J. A. Does Size Really Matter? How Synchrony and Size Affect the Dynamic of Aggression between Two Sympatric Species of Dolphin in the Bahamas. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, 2012

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

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Branch, J. Congress Presses N.H.L. on Concussions. New York Times. October 11, 2016, p B10

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	Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
ISSN (print)	1860-5397
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