How to format your references using the Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan. 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

R. Medzhitov, Nature 2008, 454, 428.

A journal article with 2 authors

H. Varmus, E. Harlow, Nature 2012, 481, 436.

A journal article with 3 authors

S. Naeem, J. E. Duffy, E. Zavaleta, Science 2012, 336, 1401.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

J. Friml, A. Vieten, M. Sauer, D. Weijers, H. Schwarz, T. Hamann, R. Offringa, G. Jürgens, Nature 2003, 426, 147.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

V. V. Zhurin, Industrial Ion Sources, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2011.

An edited book

Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2006: Third International Symposium on Neural Networks, Chengdu, China, May 28 - June 1, 2006, Proceedings, Part III, ed. by Jun Wang, Zhang Yi, Jacek M. Zurada, Bao-Liang Lu, Hujun Yin, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

S. R. Quinton, in Higher Education Management and Operational Research: Demonstrating New Practices and Metaphors, ed. by Gary Bell, Jon Warwick, Peter Galbraith, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2012, pp. 65–77.

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 Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan.

Blog post

E. Andrew, Darwin’s Finches Highlight The Unity Of All Life, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/darwin-s-finches-highlight-unity-all-life/.

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, Denial of Protest Involving Solicitation’s Evaluation Standard, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

R. J. Woodland, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 2010.

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

A. Ahmed, K. Semple, Hurricane Gains Force And Targets Caribbean, 2017, A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference ².
This sentence cites two references ^2,4.
This sentence cites four references ^2,4,6,8.

About the journal

Full journal title	Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
Abbreviation	Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn.
ISSN (print)	0009-2673
ISSN (online)	1348-0634
Scope	General Chemistry