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

El-Awady, N. 2009. Science journalism: The Arab boom. Nature. 459:1057.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sun, F., and He, S. 2014. Extending the scanning angle of a phased array antenna by using a null-space medium. Sci Rep. 4:6832.

A journal article with 3 authors

Green, E.D., Watson, J.D., and Collins, F.S. 2015. Human Genome Project: Twenty-five years of big biology. Nature. 526:29–31.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Akiyama, T., Maeda, S., Yamane, S., Ogino, K., Kasai, M., Kajiura, F., Matsumoto, M., and Inoue, J.-I. 2005. Dependence of self-tolerance on TRAF6-directed development of thymic stroma. Science. 308:248–251.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

George, M.D., Donley, T.G., and Preshaw, P.M. 2014. Ultrasonic Periodontal Debridement. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

2013. Clinical Guide to Mental Disability Evaluations. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Henkel, M., and Pleimling, M. 2010. Local Scale-invariance I: z = 2. In: M. Pleimling, ed. Non-Equilibrium Phase Transitions: Volume 2: Ageing and Dynamical Scaling Far from Equilibrium. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. pp. 221–290.

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. Stem Cell Therapy Allows Mice With MS-Like Condition To Walk Again. 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. 2005. NASA: More Knowledge Needed to Determine Best Alternatives to Provide Space Station Logistics Support. 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

Steen, R. van der. 2015. Intended infidelity: Male-female differences in intention-behavior congruence and the relative prediction power of gender, relationship and individual difference variables. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Walsh, M.W. 2012. Settlement Money Patched Nassau County Budget Gaps. New York Times. B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (El-Awady, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (El-Awady, 2009; Sun and He, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Sun and He, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Akiyama et al., 2005)

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