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

Gitlin JD (2006) Plant science. Distributing nutrition. Science 314:1252–1253

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith MM, Johanson Z (2003) Separate evolutionary origins of teeth from evidence in fossil jawed vertebrates. Science 299:1235–1236

A journal article with 3 authors

Griffin AS, West SA, Buckling A (2004) Cooperation and competition in pathogenic bacteria. Nature 430:1024–1027

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Santiago J, Dupeux F, Round A, et al (2009) The abscisic acid receptor PYR1 in complex with abscisic acid. Nature 462:665–668

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Razik H (2013) Handbook of Asynchronous Machine with Variable Speed. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Pertwee RG (2015) Endocannabinoids, 1st ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Schliemann-Bullinger M, Fey D, Bastogne T, et al (2016) The Experimental Side of Parameter Estimation. In: Geris L, Gomez-Cabrero D (eds) Uncertainty in Biology: A Computational Modeling Approach. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 127–154

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

Andrew E (2015) The Maths Of Congestion: Springs, Strings And Traffic Jams. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/maths-congestion-springs-strings-and-traffic-jams/. 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 (2013) Community Colleges: New Federal Research Center May Enhance Current Understanding of Developmental Education. 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

Boyer GC (2012) Best Practices for Student Success on the ACT. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood 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

Hubbard B (2016) Aleppo Reeling as Air Assaults Are Stepped Up. 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	Chromatographia
Abbreviation	Chromatographia
ISSN (print)	0009-5893
ISSN (online)	1612-1112
Scope	Biochemistry Clinical Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Organic Chemistry

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