How to format your references using the Chemical Senses citation style

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

Sambles, J.R. 2015. Optics. Structured photons take it slow. Science. 347:828.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lively, C.M., and Dybdahl, M.F. 2000. Parasite adaptation to locally common host genotypes. Nature. 405:679–681.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nakagaki, T., Yamada, H., and Tóth, A. 2000. Maze-solving by an amoeboid organism. Nature. 407:470.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wong, S.Q., Li, J., Salemi, R., Sheppard, K.E., Do, H., Tothill, R.W., McArthur, G.A., and Dobrovic, A. 2013. Targeted-capture massively-parallel sequencing enables robust detection of clinically informative mutations from formalin-fixed tumours. Sci Rep. 3:3494.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alvarez, P.J.J., and Illman, W.A. 2005. Bioremediation and Natural Attenuation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

2010. World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany: Vol. 25/4 Image Processing, Biosignal Processing, Modelling and Simulation, Biomechanics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Heid, M.K., Grady, M., Jairam, A., Lee, Y., Freeburn, B., and Karunakaran, S. 2014. A Processes Lens on a Beginning Teacher’s Personal and Classroom Mathematics. In: J.-J. Lo, K.R. Leatham, and L.R. Van Zoest, eds. Research Trends in Mathematics Teacher Education. Cham: Springer International Publishing. pp. 67–82.

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 Senses.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014. New Blood Test Could Diagnose Depression. IFLScience.

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. 1987. [Comments on Applicability of Grant-Back Provision of General Education Provisions Act to Library Services and Construction Act Programs]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pecue, C.J. 2015. Utilizing Audiovisual Stimuli in the Classroom to Facilitate Pronunciation of French Stop Consonants. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University.

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

Rothenberg, B. 2017. Agassi to Coach Djokovic at French Open. New York Times. D4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Sambles, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Lively and Dybdahl, 2000; Sambles, 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Lively and Dybdahl, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Wong et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chemical Senses
Abbreviation	Chem. Senses
ISSN (print)	0379-864X
ISSN (online)	1464-3553
Scope	Physiology Physiology (medical) Behavioral Neuroscience Sensory Systems