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

Darnovsky, M. A Slippery Slope to Human Germline Modification. Nature 2013, 499, 127.

A journal article with 2 authors

Salazar-Ciudad, I.; Marín-Riera, M. Adaptive Dynamics under Development-Based Genotype-Phenotype Maps. Nature 2013, 497, 361–364.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pelechano, V.; Wei, W.; Steinmetz, L.M. Extensive Transcriptional Heterogeneity Revealed by Isoform Profiling. Nature 2013, 497, 127–131.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wittkopp, P.J.; Stewart, E.E.; Arnold, L.L.; Neidert, A.H.; Haerum, B.K.; Thompson, E.M.; Akhras, S.; Smith-Winberry, G.; Shefner, L. Intraspecific Polymorphism to Interspecific Divergence: Genetics of Pigmentation in Drosophila. Science 2009, 326, 540–544.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Parker, D. Global Real Estate Investment Trusts; Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK, 2011; ISBN 9781118256558.

An edited book

Brezinski, C. André-Louis Cholesky: Mathematician, Topographer and Army Officer; Tournès, D., Ed.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; ISBN 9783319081342.

A chapter in an edited book

Guo, T.; Liu, F.; Wu, C.; Ren, Y.; Wang, W. On $(k, n) ( k , n ) Visual Cryptography Scheme with T$ t Essential Parties. In Information Theoretic Security: 7th International Conference, ICITS 2013, Singapore, November 28-30, 2013, Proceedings; Padró, C., Ed.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; pp. 56–68 ISBN 9783319042671.

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

Andrew, E. Marine Plankton Found On Surface Of International Space Station Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/marine-plankton-found-surface-international-space-station/ (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 Oversight of DOJ Funds for Recreational Activities; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2010;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pulice, S.W. The Colonized Child: Love, Community, and Wholeness as Necessary Elements of Education. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute: Carpinteria, CA, 2013.

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

Kelly, S. Op-Art. New York Times 2000, A27.

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