How to format your references using the Chromatographia citation style

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

Beutler B (2004) Inferences, questions and possibilities in Toll-like receptor signalling. Nature 430:257–263

A journal article with 2 authors

Hinrichs K-U, Inagaki F (2012) Biogeochemistry. Downsizing the deep biosphere. Science 338:204–205

A journal article with 3 authors

Sidi S, Friedrich RW, Nicolson T (2003) NompC TRP channel required for vertebrate sensory hair cell mechanotransduction. Science 301:96–99

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wernig M, Meissner A, Foreman R, et al (2007) In vitro reprogramming of fibroblasts into a pluripotent ES-cell-like state. Nature 448:318–324

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Frank P, Ottoboni MA (2011) The Dose Makes the Poison. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Guo W (2012) The Application of the Chebyshev-Spectral Method in Transport Phenomena. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Vullo V, Vivio F (2013) Disk of Uniform Strength. In: Vivio F (ed) Rotors: Stress Analysis and Design. Springer, Milano, pp 89–101

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 Chromatographia.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) Solar Plane to Attempt Round-the-World Flight. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/solar-plane-attempt-round-world-flight/. 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 (1990) Army Battlefield Automation: Oversight Needed to Assure Integrated System. 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

Chambers S (2008) Telecommunications megamergers: Impact on employee morale and turnover intention. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Saslow L (2007) Nassau Coliseum Moves Closer to Renovation. New York Times 14LI2

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	Chromatographia
Abbreviation	Chromatographia
ISSN (print)	0009-5893
ISSN (online)	1612-1112
Scope	Biochemistry Clinical Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Organic Chemistry