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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Weatherall, D. J. Genomics and Global Health: Time for a Reappraisal. Science 2003, 302 (5645), 597–599.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Rowitch, D. H.; Kriegstein, A. R. Developmental Genetics of Vertebrate Glial-Cell Specification. Nature 2010, 468 (7321), 214–222.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Pevzner, P. A.; Kim, S.; Ng, J. Comment on “Protein Sequences from Mastodon and Tyrannosaurus Rex Revealed by Mass Spectrometry.” Science 2008, 321 (5892), 1040; author reply 1040.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Thompson, R. C.; Olsen, Y.; Mitchell, R. P.; Davis, A.; Rowland, S. J.; John, A. W. G.; McGonigle, D.; Russell, A. E. Lost at Sea: Where Is All the Plastic? Science 2004, 304 (5672), 838.

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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Oyama, T. Post-Crisis Risk Management; John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd.: 2 Clementi Loop, #02-01, Singapore 129809, 2010.

An edited book

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National Legal Systems and Globalization: New Role, Continuing Relevance; Larouche, P., Cserne, P., Eds.; T. M. C. Asser Press: The Hague, The Netherlands, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

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Lacy, M. Q.; Leung, N. Supportive Care for Amyloidosis. In Amyloidosis: Diagnosis and Treatment; Gertz, M. A., Rajkumar, S. V., Eds.; Humana Press: Totowa, NJ, 2010; pp 65–75.

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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Davis, J. New Species Of Pitviper Discovered After A Century Of Misidentification. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-species-of-pitviper-discovered-after-a-century-of-misidentification/ (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. Highway Safety: Monitoring Practices To Show Compliance With Speed Limits Should Be Reexamined; RCED-88-93BR; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1988.

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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Pena, H. Long-Term Effects of Post-Fire Forest Structure on Understory Vegetation in Larch Forests of the Siberian Arctic. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 2017.

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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Kepner, T. Heavier Bullpen Use Unlikely Outside Postseason. New York Times. November 2, 2016, p B14.

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

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