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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Heber U (2002) Astronomy. White dwarf mergers and the rebirth of luminous stars. Science 296:2344–2345

A journal article with 2 authors

Houghton M, Abrignani S (2005) Prospects for a vaccine against the hepatitis C virus. Nature 436:961–966

A journal article with 3 authors

Baxt LA, Garza-Mayers AC, Goldberg MB (2013) Bacterial subversion of host innate immune pathways. Science 340:697–701

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Willingham AT, Orth AP, Batalov S, et al (2005) A strategy for probing the function of noncoding RNAs finds a repressor of NFAT. Science 309:1570–1573

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Glisic SG (2011) Advanced Wireless Communications & Internet. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Binder T, Löwgren J, Malmborg L (2009) (Re)Searching The Digital Bauhaus. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Shukla P (2012) Domains and Interfaces in Random Fields. In: Menon GI, Ray P (eds) The Physics of Disordered Systems. Hindustan Book Agency, Gurgaon, pp 141–158

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

Davis J (2015) Scientists Confirm That People do Actually Age at Different Rates. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-confirm-people-age-different-rates/. 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 (1995) Combined Fund Update. 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

Runyan TE (2017) A Machine Learning Approach to Quantifying Likely Locations of Gas and Gas Hydrate Accumulation. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Goldstein M, Abrams R, Protess B (2016) Private Equity Hits Close to Home. New York Times A1

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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