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

Tutu, D. Genome-Sequencing Anniversary. My Genome. Science 2011, 331, 689.

A journal article with 2 authors

Burdett, T.C.; Freeman, M.R. Neuroscience. Astrocytes Eyeball Axonal Mitochondria. Science 2014, 345, 385–386.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shimojo, S.; Kamitani, Y.; Nishida, S. Afterimage of Perceptually Filled-in Surface. Science 2001, 293, 1677–1680.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Block, B.A.; Teo, S.L.H.; Walli, A.; Boustany, A.; Stokesbury, M.J.W.; Farwell, C.J.; Weng, K.C.; Dewar, H.; Williams, T.D. Electronic Tagging and Population Structure of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna. Nature 2005, 434, 1121–1127.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barker, P.; Chang, J. Basic Family Therapy; John Wiley & Sons Ltd: Oxford, UK, 2013; ISBN 9781118624944.

An edited book

Babu, P. Extremophiles and Their Applications in Medical Processes; Chandel, A.K., Singh, O.V., Eds.; SpringerBriefs in Microbiology; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; ISBN 9783319128078.

A chapter in an edited book

Altshuler, Y.; Yanovsky, V.; Wagner, I.A.; Bruckstein, A.M. Swarm Intelligence — Searchers, Cleaners and Hunters. In Swarm Intelligent Systems; Nedjah, N., Mourelle, L. de M., Eds.; Studies in Computational Intelligence; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006; pp. 93–132 ISBN 9783540338680.

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

Taub, B. Polish Man Becomes First Person Born Without A Hand To Receive A Transplant Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/polish-man-becomes-first-person-born-without-hand-receive-transplant/ (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 National Assessment of Educational Progress: Its Results Need To Be Made More Useful; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1976;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lavoie, D. Ecotone. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2010.

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

Hodgman, J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times 2016, MM38.

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

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