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]

W.B. McKinnon, Journal club. A planetary scientist has big hopes for a little world, Nature. 456 (2008) 425.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B. Noudoost, T. Moore, Control of visual cortical signals by prefrontal dopamine, Nature. 474 (2011) 372–375.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.J. Webster, R.J.H. Payne, M. Pagel, Molecular phylogenies link rates of evolution and speciation, Science. 301 (2003) 478.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B.J. Enquist, A.J. Kerkhoff, S.C. Stark, N.G. Swenson, M.C. McCarthy, C.A. Price, A general integrative model for scaling plant growth, carbon flux, and functional trait spectra, Nature. 449 (2007) 218–222.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M.S. Ben Mahmoud, C. Guerber, N. Larrieu, A. Pirovano, J. Radzik, Aeronautical Air-Ground Data Link Communications, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

L. Grech, A. Lau, eds., Pharmaceutical Care Issues of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: From Hospital to Community, Springer, Singapore, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

X. Wang, D. Reeves, Active Timing Based Traceback, in: D. Reeves (Ed.), Traceback and Anonymity, Springer, New York, NY, 2015: pp. 23–47.

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]

J. Fang, Three-Inch Leech Lived Up Backpacker’s Nose For A Month, IFLScience. (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/leech-lived-backpackers-nose-month/ (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, Large Truck Safety: Federal Enforcement Efforts Have Been Stronger Since 2000, but Oversight of State Grants Needs Improvement, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E.Y. Ramirez, Barriers to access to health care among Latino immigrants in the United States: A quantitative study, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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]

S. Almosawa, B. Hubbard, Blast ‘So Vile’ It Could Alter War in Yemen, New York Times. (2016) A1.

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

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