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

Smaglik, P. Upping the Ante. Nature 2003, 424, 857.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kossinets, G.; Watts, D.J. Empirical Analysis of an Evolving Social Network. Science 2006, 311, 88–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pettinato, G.; Wen, X.; Zhang, N. Formation of Well-Defined Embryoid Bodies from Dissociated Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Using Microfabricated Cell-Repellent Microwell Arrays. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 7402.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Madueno, R.; Räisänen, M.T.; Silien, C.; Buck, M. Functionalizing Hydrogen-Bonded Surface Networks with Self-Assembled Monolayers. Nature 2008, 454, 618–621.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rao, C.L.; Narayanamurthy, V.; Simha, K.R.Y. Applied Impact Mechanics; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2016; ISBN 9781119241829.

An edited book

Thyroid Eye Disease; Douglas, R.S., McCoy, A.N., Gupta, S., Eds.; Springer: New York, NY, 2015; ISBN 9781493917457.

A chapter in an edited book

Ding, J.; Yang, B.-Y. Degree of Regularity for HFEv and HFEv-. In Post-Quantum Cryptography: 5th International Workshop, PQCrypto 2013, Limoges, France, June 4-7, 2013. Proceedings; Gaborit, P., Ed.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013; pp. 52–66 ISBN 9783642386152.

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

Andrew, E. Dispersants Sprayed In Wake Of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill More Toxic Than Oil Alone Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/dispersants-sprayed-wake-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-more-toxic-oil-alone/ (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 ADP Acquisition: Air Force Logistics System Modernization Projects; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1989;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Urquidi, A.J. Condolences to All of You: Late Eulogies of a Half-Complacent Birthday Boy. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2015.

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

Billard, M. Sunsets and Pink Dolphins Along the Amazon. New York Times 2014, TR12.

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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