How to format your references using the Chinese Chemical Letters citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chinese Chemical Letters. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

D.L. Brasaemle, Cell biology. A metabolic push to proliferate, Science. 313 (2006) 1581–1582.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. Mohnen, M.L. Tierney, Plant science. Plants get Hyp to O-glycosylation, Science. 332 (2011) 1393–1394.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

V.V. Cheianov, V. Fal’ko, B.L. Altshuler, The focusing of electron flow and a Veselago lens in graphene p-n junctions, Science. 315 (2007) 1252–1255.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Caley, T. Extier, J.A. Collins, E. Schefuß, L. Dupont, B. Malaizé, L. Rossignol, A. Souron, E.L. McClymont, F.J. Jimenez-Espejo, C. García-Comas, F. Eynaud, P. Martinez, D.M. Roche, S.J. Jorry, K. Charlier, M. Wary, P.-Y. Gourves, I. Billy, J. Giraudeau, A two-million-year-long hydroclimatic context for hominin evolution in southeastern Africa, Nature. 560 (2018) 76–79.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Cardon, M. Itmi, New Autonomous Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

E. Pattaro, D. Canale, P. Grossi, H. Hofmann, P. Riley, eds., A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence: Vol. 9: A History of the Philosophy of Law in the Civil Law World, 1600-1900; Vol. 10: The Philosophers’ Philosophy of Law from the Seventeenth Century to our Days, 1st ed., Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Rana, M. Zöller, The Functional Importance of Tetraspanins in Exosomes, in: H.-G. Zhang (Ed.), Emerging Concepts of Tumor Exosome–Mediated Cell-Cell Communication, Springer, New York, NY, 2013: pp. 69–106.

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 Chinese Chemical Letters.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Measles Denier Forced To Pay €100,000 To Doctor Who Proved Measles Is A Virus, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/measles-denier-made-pay/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, The Air Force Can Improve Its Maintenance Information Systems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.S. Johnson, Fatigue Behavior and Microstructure of Direct Laser Deposited Inconel 718 Alloy, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, 2017.

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

[1]

M.J.O. Murphy, Looking Back (and Learning From) ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show,’ New York Times. (2016) C22.

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	Chinese Chemical Letters
Abbreviation	Chin. Chem. Lett.
ISSN (print)	1001-8417
Scope	General Chemistry

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