How to format your references using the Chemistry Central Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chemistry Central Journal. 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

DeWeerdt S (2011) Food: The omnivore’s labyrinth. Nature 471:S22-4

A journal article with 2 authors

Yuan H, Marmorstein R (2013) Biochemistry. Red wine, toast of the town (again). Science 339:1156–1157

A journal article with 3 authors

Rignot E, Rivera A, Casassa G (2003) Contribution of the Patagonia Icefields of South America to sea level rise. Science 302:434–437

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Li M, Chen D, Shiloh A, et al (2002) Deubiquitination of p53 by HAUSP is an important pathway for p53 stabilization. Nature 416:648–653

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Woolley T (2013) Low Impact Building. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford

An edited book

Nadamoto A, Jatowt A, Wierzbicki A, Leidner JL (2014) Social Informatics: SocInfo 2013 International Workshops, QMC and HISTOINFORMATICS, Kyoto, Japan, November 25, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Giaquinto M (2005) Mathematical Activity. In: Mancosu P, Jørgensen KF, Pedersen SA (eds) Visualization, Explanation and Reasoning Styles in Mathematics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 75–87

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 Chemistry Central Journal.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2016) Rosetta Mission To End With Crash Landing On September 30. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/rosetta-mission-to-end-with-crash-landing-on-september-30/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1982) Automation in the Workplace: Barriers, Impact on the Work Force, and the Federal Role. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Payne LG (2015) The experience of caring for women with drug or alcohol problems in the general hospital. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic 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

Kishkovsky S (2001) Distance Learning: RussiaIs Reaching Out. New York Times 4A28

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	Chemistry Central Journal
Abbreviation	Chem. Cent. J.
ISSN (online)	1752-153X
Scope	General Chemistry

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