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

Seeman N (2015) Use data to challenge mental-health stigma. Nature 528:309

A journal article with 2 authors

Lillard A, Else-Quest N (2006) The early years. Evaluating Montessori education. Science 313:1893–1894

A journal article with 3 authors

Curry R, Dickson B, Yashayaev I (2003) A change in the freshwater balance of the Atlantic Ocean over the past four decades. Nature 426:826–829

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Dioum EM, Chen R, Alexander MS, et al (2009) Regulation of hypoxia-inducible factor 2alpha signaling by the stress-responsive deacetylase sirtuin 1. Science 324:1289–1293

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goldstein LSB, Schneider M (2010) Stem Cells for Dummies®. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Feng J (2015) Index and Query Methods in Road Networks. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Donnevert G, Uhlig S, Moser T (2009) Ring Test Data Evaluation. In: Moser H, Römbke J (eds) Ecotoxicological Characterization of Waste: Results and Experiences of an International Ring Test. Springer, New York, NY, pp 47–60

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) Flatworm Reproduces by Using its Penis to Inject Sperm Into its Head. 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 (2000) Cooperative Research: Results of U.S.-Industry Partnership to Develop a New Generation of Vehicles. 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

Youngbull NR (2017) The (Un)Success of American Indian Gates Millennium Scholars Within Institutions of Higher Education. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Barron J (2017) Long-Ago Brooklyn Brewer Left Hidden Underground Vaults, and Mystery. New York Times A23

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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