How to format your references using the Chemosensors citation style

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

Mira-Perez, J. Spanish University Study Ignores Research. Nature 2000, 404, 222.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hubbard, J.; Shaw, J.H. Uplift of the Longmen Shan and Tibetan Plateau, and the 2008 Wenchuan (M = 7.9) Earthquake. Nature 2009, 458, 194–197.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sellman, B.R.; Mourez, M.; Collier, R.J. Dominant-Negative Mutants of a Toxin Subunit: An Approach to Therapy of Anthrax. Science 2001, 292, 695–697.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shinzato, C.; Shoguchi, E.; Kawashima, T.; Hamada, M.; Hisata, K.; Tanaka, M.; Fujie, M.; Fujiwara, M.; Koyanagi, R.; Ikuta, T.; et al. Using the Acropora Digitifera Genome to Understand Coral Responses to Environmental Change. Nature 2011, 476, 320–323.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tschannen-Moran, B.; Tschannen-Moran, M. Evocative Coaching; Jossey-Bass: San Francisco, CA, USA, 2010; ISBN 9781118269510.

An edited book

Optical Nano- and Microsystems for Bioanalytics; Fritzsche, W., Popp, J., Eds.; Springer Series on Chemical Sensors and Biosensors, Methods and Applications; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; Vol. 10; ISBN 9783642254970.

A chapter in an edited book

Basupalli, V.; Yuki, T.; Rajopadhye, S.; Morvan, A.; Derrien, S.; Quinton, P.; Wonnacott, D. OmpVerify: Polyhedral Analysis for the OpenMP Programmer. In OpenMP in the Petascale Era: 7th International Workshop on OpenMP, IWOMP 2011, Chicago, IL, USA, June 13-15, 2011. Proceedings; Chapman, B.M., Gropp, W.D., Kumaran, K., Müller, M.S., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011; pp. 37–53 ISBN 9783642214868.

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 Chemosensors.

Blog post

Evans, K. African Forest Elephants Could Take 100 Years To Recover From Poaching (accessed on 30 October 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 S. 1490, a Bill To Authorize the Administrator of General Services To Enter Into Multiyear Leases Through Use of the Automatic Data Processing Fund Without Obligating the Total Anticipated Payments To Be Made Under Such Leases; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1977;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fuentez, O.L. Proposition 21: Juveniles Tried as Adults. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2010.

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

Gustines, G.G. The Newest Superpower: Passing Through Network Walls. New York Times 2016, C5.

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	Chemosensors
Abbreviation	Chemosensors (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2227-9040
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