How to format your references using the Chemical Data Collections citation style

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

[1]

P. Gwynne, Microbiology: There’s gold in them there bugs, Nature 495 (2013) S12-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A.F. Rubin, P. Green, Comment on “The consensus coding sequences of human breast and colorectal cancers,” Science 317 (2007) 1500.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.J. Gillis, A.P. Schuller, E. Skordalakes, Structure of the Tribolium castaneum telomerase catalytic subunit TERT, Nature 455 (2008) 633–637.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

N.M. Bowman, S. Congdon, T. Mvalo, J.C. Patel, V. Escamilla, M. Emch, F. Martinson, I. Hoffman, S.R. Meshnick, J.J. Juliano, Comparative population structure of Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein NANP repeat lengths in Lilongwe, Malawi, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1990.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

V.A. Kelly, ADDICTION in the Family: What Every Counselor Needs to Know, American Counseling Association, Alexandria, USA, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

S. Zaffagnini, R. Becker, G.M.M.J. Kerkhoffs, J. Espregueira Mendes, C.N. van Dijk, eds., ESSKA Instructional Course Lecture Book: Amsterdam 2014, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T. Brandstaetter, D. Bamber, D. Weir, ‘Wasta’: Triadic Trust in Jordanian Business, in: M.A. Ramady (Ed.), The Political Economy of Wasta: Use and Abuse of Social Capital Networking, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 65–78.

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 Data Collections.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, It’s Not Earth 2.0, But Our New Rocky Neighbour Is A Planet Worth Watching, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/its-not-earth-20-our-new-rocky-neighbour-planet-worth-watching/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Relationship of Contractor and Grantee ADP Activities, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.L. Sweeney, Learning in human -dolphin interactions at zoological facilities, Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, 2009.

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

[1]

M. Paulson, The Musical ‘The Prom’ Is Coming to Broadway, New York Times (2017) C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Data Collections
Abbreviation	Chem. Data Coll.
ISSN (print)	2405-8300
Scope