How to format your references using the Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems. 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

[1]

A. Damasio, Fundamental feelings, Nature. 413 (2001) 781.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.D. Scott, T. Pawson, Cell signaling in space and time: where proteins come together and when they’re apart, Science. 326 (2009) 1220–1224.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B.S. Kim, K.S. Yook, J.Y. Lee, Above 20% external quantum efficiency in novel hybrid white organic light-emitting diodes having green thermally activated delayed fluorescent emitter, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6019.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B.E. Cohen, T.B. McAnaney, E.S. Park, Y.N. Jan, S.G. Boxer, L.Y. Jan, Probing protein electrostatics with a synthetic fluorescent amino acid, Science. 296 (2002) 1700–1703.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Wexler, J. Shaffer, A. Cotgreave, The Big Book of Dashboards, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

A.A. Vinks, H. Derendorf, J.W. Mouton, eds., Fundamentals of Antimicrobial Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics, Springer, New York, NY, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Nordström, H. Johnsson, S. Lidelöw, Using the Energy Signature Method to Estimate the Effective U-Value of Buildings, in: A. Hakansson, M. Höjer, R.J. Howlett, L.C. Jain (Eds.), Sustainability in Energy and Buildings: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference in Sustainability in Energy and Buildings (SEB´12), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 35–44.

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 Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems.

Blog post

[1]

B. Taub, Most Clinical Trial Data In China Is Fabricated, Government Report Finds, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/most-clinical-trial-data-china-fabricated/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Space Surveillance: DOD and NASA Need Consolidated Requirements and a Coordinated Plan, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.E. Grefe, Plasmonic and topological insulator nanostructures and metamaterials nanoscale near-field investigations: Experiment and theory, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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

[1]

M.D. Shear, L. Goodstein, M. Haberman, Trump Is Expected to Relax Tax Rules on Churches That Actively Take Part in Politics, New York Times. (2017) A15.

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	Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems
Abbreviation	Chemometr. Intell. Lab. Syst.
ISSN (print)	0169-7439
Scope	Process Chemistry and Technology Analytical Chemistry Spectroscopy Computer Science Applications Software

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