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

Schneider, T. (2007). Climate modelling: uncertainty in climate-sensitivity estimates. Nature 446, E1; discussion E2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Young, R., and Gill, J.J. (2015). MICROBIOLOGY. Phage therapy redux--What is to be done? Science 350, 1163–1164.

A journal article with 3 authors

Anderson, D.G., Burdick, J.A., and Langer, R. (2004). Materials science. Smart biomaterials. Science 305, 1923–1924.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Dornan, D., Wertz, I., Shimizu, H., Arnott, D., Frantz, G.D., Dowd, P., O’Rourke, K., Koeppen, H., and Dixit, V.M. (2004). The ubiquitin ligase COP1 is a critical negative regulator of p53. Nature 429, 86–92.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Esch, G.W. (2015). Ecological Parasitology (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd).

An edited book

Rong, J. (2016). Metasomatic Textures in Granites: Evidence from Petrographic Observation F. Wang, ed. (Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Kobayashi, M., Akiyama, M., Kise, H., and Watanabe, T. (2006). Unusual Tetrapyrrole Pigments of Photosynthetic Antennae and Reaction Centers: Specially-tailored Chlorophylls. In Chlorophylls and Bacteriochlorophylls: Biochemistry, Biophysics, Functions and Applications Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration., B. Grimm, R. J. Porra, W. Rüdiger, and H. Scheer, eds. (Springer Netherlands), pp. 55–66.

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

Andrew, E. (2015). Scientists May Have Solved Origins Of Mysterious Feature In Venus’ Atmosphere. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-may-have-solved-origins-mysterious-feature-venus-atmosphere/.

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 (1974). Problems in Providing Education Overseas for Dependents of U.S. Personnel (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

Berkland, M. (2015). Strain analysis of a detachment shear zone.

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

Walsh, M.W. (2011). Panel Hears Complaints On Pensions At Delphi. 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
Abbreviation	Chem
ISSN (online)	2451-9294
Scope	Biochemistry General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry Environmental Chemistry Materials Chemistry Biochemistry, medical