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

Griffith LC (2014) Neuroscience: What females really want. Nature 512:138–139

A journal article with 2 authors

Chouard T, Gray N (2010) Glia. Nature 468:213

A journal article with 3 authors

Rogers Hollingsworth J, Müller KH, Hollingsworth EJ (2008) China: The end of the science superpowers. Nature 454:412–413

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Edwards J, Whitaker D, Klionsky S, Laskowski MJ (2005) Botany: a record-breaking pollen catapult. Nature 435:164

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hochstadt H (1988) Integral Equations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Yu W, He H, Zhang N (2009) Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2009: 6th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2009 Wuhan, China, May 26-29, 2009 Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Oliveira JM, Carrapatoso EM (2010) Evaluating the Adaptation of Multimedia Services Using a Constraints-Based Approach. In: Jiang X, Ma MY, Chen CW (eds) Mobile Multimedia Processing: Fundamentals, Methods, and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 70–88

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

Davis J (2016) New Clones Of Dolly The Sheep Age No Differently Than Normal. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-clones-of-dolly-the-sheep-age-no-differently-than-normal/. 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 (1992) Strategies to Improve Communication Between Program and Financial Managers. 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

Bain Butler D (2010) How L2 legal writers use strategies for scholarly writing: A mixed methods study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Marx L (2015) A Model Walks Into a Bar …. New York Times ST21

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