How to format your references using the Chemical Reviews citation style

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

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Jia, H. Alliances for Scientific Success. Nature 2015, 528 (7582), S187-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Sininger, Y. S.; Cone-Wesson, B. Asymmetric Cochlear Processing Mimics Hemispheric Specialization. Science 2004, 305 (5690), 1581.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Stone, L.; Olinky, R.; Huppert, A. Seasonal Dynamics of Recurrent Epidemics. Nature 2007, 446 (7135), 533–536.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Darby, C.; Hsu, J. W.; Ghori, N.; Falkow, S. Caenorhabditis Elegans: Plague Bacteria Biofilm Blocks Food Intake. Nature 2002, 417 (6886), 243–244.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Bécherrawy, T. Mechanical and Electromagnetic Vibrations and Waves; John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

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Information Security Theory and Practices. Smart Devices, Convergence and Next Generation Networks: Second IFIP WG 11.2 International Workshop, WISTP 2008, Seville, Spain, May 13-16, 2008. Proceedings; Onieva, J. A., Sauveron, D., Chaumette, S., Gollmann, D., Markantonakis, K., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008; Vol. 5019.

A chapter in an edited book

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Fox, J. J.; Bartholomae, S. Financial Education and Program Evaluation. In Handbook of Consumer Finance Research; Xiao, J. J., Ed.; Springer: New York, NY, 2008; pp 47–68.

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 Reviews.

Blog post

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Andrew, E. No, Smelling Farts Can’t Cure Cancer. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/can-smelling-farts-cure-cancer/ (accessed 2018-10-30).

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

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Government Accountability Office. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Readiness Improving Yet Essential Actions Remain to Ensure Delivery of Critical Services; T-AIMD-99-268; 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

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Locicero, L. M. The Effects of Vertical Casting Position in Reinforced Concrete. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 2014.

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

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Hubbard, B. Saudi Prince Is Executed for Murder. New York Times. October 18, 2016, p A9.

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 Reviews
Abbreviation	Chem. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0009-2665
ISSN (online)	1520-6890
Scope	General Chemistry