How to format your references using the Chemical Communications citation style

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

M. Baker, Nature, 2010, 465, 823–826.

A journal article with 2 authors

T. P. Yoon and E. N. Jacobsen, Science, 2003, 299, 1691–1693.

A journal article with 3 authors

J. C. Tellis, D. N. Primer and G. A. Molander, Science, 2014, 345, 433–436.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

S. Rozen, H. Skaletsky, J. D. Marszalek, P. J. Minx, H. S. Cordum, R. H. Waterston, R. K. Wilson and D. C. Page, Nature, 2003, 423, 873–876.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

S. A. McCrary, Mastering Financial Accounting Essentials, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2009.

An edited book

S. Assar, I. Boughzala and I. Boydens, Eds., Practical Studies in E-Government: Best Practices from Around the World, Springer, New York, NY, 1st edn., 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

R. Hampp, A. Hartmann and U. Nehls, in Growth and Defence in Plants: Resource Allocation at Multiple Scales, eds. R. Matyssek, H. Schnyder, W. Oßwald, D. Ernst, J. C. Munch and H. Pretzsch, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012, pp. 111–139.

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 Chemical Communications.

Blog post

J. O`Callaghan, No, An Asteroid Isn’t Going To Hit Earth And Kill Us All Any Time Soon, (accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office, Federal Research Grants: Compensation Paid to Graduate Students at the University of California, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

J. Parisi, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 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

S. Dominus, New York Times, 2017, MM34.

In-text citations

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

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	Chemical Communications
Abbreviation	Chem. Commun. (Camb.)
ISSN (print)	1359-7345
ISSN (online)	1364-548X
Scope	Catalysis General Chemistry Ceramics and Composites Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Materials Chemistry Metals and Alloys Surfaces, Coatings and Films