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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Prusiner, S.B. Cell Biology. A Unifying Role for Prions in Neurodegenerative Diseases. Science 2012, 336, 1511–1513.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brumfiel, G.; Knight, J. Climate of Conflict: In the Shadow of War. Nature 2003, 426, 748–749.

A journal article with 3 authors

Keimer, B.; Sackmann, E.; Withers, P.J. Neutron Scattering. The Case for Neutron Sources. Science 2002, 298, 543.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bertaux, J.-L.; Leblanc, F.; Witasse, O.; Quemerais, E.; Lilensten, J.; Stern, S.A.; Sandel, B.; Korablev, O. Discovery of an Aurora on Mars. Nature 2005, 435, 790–794.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kent, J. ADA in Details; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2017; ISBN 9781119277613.

An edited book

Professional Search in the Modern World: COST Action IC1002 on Multilingual and Multifaceted Interactive Information Access; Paltoglou, G., Loizides, F., Hansen, P., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; Vol. 8830; ISBN 9783319125107.

A chapter in an edited book

Pistrosch, F.; Hanefeld, M. The Metabolic Syndrome and Cancer. In The Metabolic Syndrome: Pharmacology and Clinical Aspects; Beck-Nielsen, H., Ed.; Springer: Vienna, 2013; pp. 55–61 ISBN 9783709113301.

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. Vegetarians Cause Environmental Damage, But Meat Eaters Aren’t Off The Hook Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/vegetarians-cause-environmental-damage-meat-eaters-aren-t-hook/ (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 Motor Carrier Safety: Improvements to Drug Testing Programs Could Better Identify Illegal Drug Users and Keep Them off the Road; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2008;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Alexander, B.C. A Descriptive Study of Intercollegiate Athletics in Mississippi’s Public Community and Junior Colleges. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University: Mississippi State, MS, 2009.

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

Lichtblau, E. N.R.A.’s Wins in Congress Grow With Lobbyist’s Role. New York Times 2016, A19.

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