How to format your references using the Chromatography citation style

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

Salo, H. Astronomy. Twisted Disks. Science 2011, 332, 672–673.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schrag, D.P.; Hoffman, P.F. Life, Geology and Snowball Earth. Nature 2001, 409, 306.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bryden, H.L.; Longworth, H.R.; Cunningham, S.A. Slowing of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 25 Degrees N. Nature 2005, 438, 655–657.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Reissmann, S.; Hochleitner, E.; Wang, H.; Paschos, A.; Lottspeich, F.; Glass, R.S.; Böck, A. Taming of a Poison: Biosynthesis of the NiFe-Hydrogenase Cyanide Ligands. Science 2003, 299, 1067–1070.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vignes, A. Extractive Metallurgy 3; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ USA, 2013; ISBN 9781118617106.

An edited book

Quantum Dynamic Imaging: Theoretical and Numerical Methods; Bandrauk, A.D., Ivanov, M., Eds.; CRM Series in Mathematical Physics; 1st ed.; Springer: New York, NY, 2011; ISBN 9781441994905.

A chapter in an edited book

de Sousa, J.B.; Lobo Pereira, F. Coordination Challenges in Networked Vehicle Systems: Are We Missing Something? In Coordination Control of Distributed Systems; Schuppen, J.H. van, Villa, T., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; pp. 27–34 ISBN 9783319104065.

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 Chromatography.

Blog post

Hale, T. Scientists Launch Search For The Supposedly Extinct Tasmanian Tiger Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-launch-search-for-the-supposedly-extinct-tasmanian-tiger/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Federal Reserve Has Established Effective Year 2000 Management Controls for Internal Systems Conversion; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1999;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Greene, J. Recognizing the “Muchness” in Art Education: A Historical Analysis of Developments in Education and Art Education Since the 1950s and the Finding Your Muchness Photoshop Curriculum. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University: Washington, DC, 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

Cooper, M. Dudamel Condemns Venezuelan Politics. New York Times 2017, C2.

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	Chromatography
Abbreviation	Chromatography (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2227-9075
Scope