How to format your references using the Chem Catalysis citation style

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

King, M.-C. (2011). Genome-sequencing anniversary. A healthy son. Science 331, 1026.

A journal article with 2 authors

Horvath, P., and Barrangou, R. (2010). CRISPR/Cas, the immune system of bacteria and archaea. Science 327, 167–170.

A journal article with 3 authors

Batey, R.T., Gilbert, S.D., and Montange, R.K. (2004). Structure of a natural guanine-responsive riboswitch complexed with the metabolite hypoxanthine. Nature 432, 411–415.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Gupta, P., Dongare, P.D., Grover, S., Dubey, S., Mamgain, H., Bhattacharya, A., and Deshmukh, M.M. (2014). A facile process for soak-and-peel delamination of CVD graphene from substrates using water. Sci. Rep. 4, 3882.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yu, J. (2013). Way of the Trade (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Hostettler, S., Gadgil, A., and Hazboun, E. eds. (2015). Sustainable Access to Energy in the Global South: Essential Technologies and Implementation Approaches (Springer International Publishing).

A chapter in an edited book

Duncan, C.A., and Phoha, V.V. (2012). On the Complexity of Aggregating Information for Authentication and Profiling. In Data Privacy Management and Autonomous Spontaneus Security: 6th International Workshop, DPM 2011, and 4th International Workshop, SETOP 2011, Leuven, Belgium, September 15-16, 2011, Revised Selected Papers Lecture Notes in Computer Science., J. Garcia-Alfaro, G. Navarro-Arribas, N. Cuppens-Boulahia, and S. de Capitani di Vimercati, eds. (Springer), pp. 58–71.

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 Chem Catalysis.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). The Science Behind The Most Gruesome Deaths In Game of Thrones. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/science-behind-most-gruesome-deaths-game-thrones/.

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 (1998). Schools and Libraries Corporation: Actions Needed to Strengthen Program Integrity Operations Before Committing Funds (U.S. Government Printing Office).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Boysen, J. (2008). The ESCRT machinery, required for endosomal trafficking, is a pH-signaling platform.

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

Koblin, J., and Barnes, B. (2017). Hulu’s Chief Since 2013 Quits to Lead Sony TV Unit. New York Times, B3.

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	Chem Catalysis
ISSN (online)	2667-1093
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