How to format your references using the Chem citation style

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

Smith, B.D. (2007). Behavior. The ultimate ecosystem engineers. Science 315, 1797–1798.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jin, Q., and He, S.Y. (2001). Role of the Hrp pilus in type III protein secretion in Pseudomonas syringae. Science 294, 2556–2558.

A journal article with 3 authors

Engler, H.S., Spencer, K.C., and Gilbert, L.E. (2000). Preventing cyanide release from leaves. Nature 406, 144–145.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Chen, K.-Y., Cong, B., Wing, R., Vrebalov, J., and Tanksley, S.D. (2007). Changes in regulation of a transcription factor lead to autogamy in cultivated tomatoes. Science 318, 643–645.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith, D.A., van de Waterbeemd, H., and Walker, D.K. (2006). Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism in Drug Design: SMITH: PHARMACOKINETICS AND METABOLISM IN DRUG DESIGN O-BK (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA).

An edited book

Fomin, F.V. ed. (2006). Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science: 32nd International Workshop, WG 2006, Bergen, Norway, June 22-24, 2006 Revised Papers (Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Balachander, S.K. (2015). Flag-Shipping ‘Indicators’ for Green-Campus Transitions and Sustainability: A Case-Study of Learner-Centered Projects at Loyola, Secunderabad. In Implementing Campus Greening Initiatives: Approaches, Methods and Perspectives World Sustainability Series., W. Leal Filho, N. Muthu, G. Edwin, and M. Sima, eds. (Springer International Publishing), pp. 53–60.

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.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2015). NASA Shows Off Psychedelic Pluto. IFLScience.

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 (1992). Strategies to Improve Communication Between Program and Financial Managers (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

Arguello, I.M. (2010). Circle of Sisters summer program: A grant-writing project.

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

Kelly, M. (1992). The Surrounding Scene; It Seemed Like Donahue. But With Bush, Clinton and Perot, It Sure Wasn’t. New York Times, A9.

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
Abbreviation	Chem
ISSN (online)	2451-9294
Scope	Biochemistry General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry Environmental Chemistry Materials Chemistry Biochemistry, medical