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

Ranganathan R (2007) Biochemistry. Signaling across the cell membrane. Science 318:1253–1254

A journal article with 2 authors

Adler SL, Bassi A (2009) Physics. Is quantum theory exact? Science 325:275–276

A journal article with 3 authors

French S, Lekic V, Romanowicz B (2013) Waveform tomography reveals channeled flow at the base of the oceanic asthenosphere. Science 342:227–230

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Baena-González E, Rolland F, Thevelein JM, Sheen J (2007) A central integrator of transcription networks in plant stress and energy signalling. Nature 448:938–942

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tobias J, Hochhauser D (2014) Cancer and its Management. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Keller HB, Plödereder E, Dencker P, Klenk H (2013) Reliable Software Technologies – Ada-Europe 2013: 18th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Berlin, Germany, June 10-14, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Aitken C, Stephenson C, Brinkworth R (2010) Process Classification Frameworks. In: vom Brocke J, Rosemann M (eds) Handbook on Business Process Management 2: Strategic Alignment, Governance, People and Culture. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 73–92

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

Luntz S (2017) This Sightless Invertebrate Is Probably Doing More To Fight Climate Change Than You. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/this-sightless-invertebrate-is-probably-doing-more-to-fight-climate-change-than-you/. 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 (1997) International Aviation: Competition Issues in the U.S.-U.K. Market. 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

Ward CS (2012) Movin’ Around. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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 (2010) To Soccer Fan, Train Whistle Hits Perfect Pitch. New York Times SP8

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
Scope

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