How to format your references using the ChemTexts citation style

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

Wilcove DS (2005) Ecology. Rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker. Science 308:1422–1423

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen B, Cepko CL (2009) HDAC4 regulates neuronal survival in normal and diseased retinas. Science 323:256–259

A journal article with 3 authors

Tria F, Pompei S, Loreto V (2013) Dynamically correlated mutations drive human Influenza A evolution. Sci Rep 3:2705

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhao Y, Dai Z, Liang Y, et al (2014) Sequence-specific inhibition of microRNA via CRISPR/CRISPRi system. Sci Rep 4:3943

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hu W (2015) Fundamental Spacecraft Dynamics and Control. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Ruan D, Chen G, Kerre EE, Wets G (2005) Intelligent Data Mining: Techniques and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Costamagna F (2015) Regulating Public Services and International Investment Law. In: Krajewski M (ed) Services of General Interest Beyond the Single Market: External and International Law Dimensions. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague, pp 77–109

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 ChemTexts.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Vaping As A ‘Gateway’ To Smoking Is Still More Hype Than Hazard. In: IFLScience. 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 (1977) Costs of Compliance With the Renegotiation Act of 1951. 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

Hebel O (2012) Parental involvement in the individual educational program for Israeli students with disabilities. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Vecsey G (2009) We’re All Finally Learning The True Price Of Football. New York Times B14

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	ChemTexts
Abbreviation	ChemTexts
ISSN (online)	2199-3793
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