How to format your references using the Combinatorial Chemistry - an Online journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Combinatorial Chemistry - an Online journal. 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

[1]

Brockhurst MA. Evolution. Sex, death, and the Red Queen. Science 2011;333:166–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Flowers RM, Farley KA. Response to Comments on “Apatite 4He/3He and (U-Th)/He Evidence for an Ancient Grand Canyon.” Science 2013;340:143.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kim S, Ubel P, De Vries R. Pruning the regulatory tree. Nature 2009;457:534–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Novikov AP, Kalmykov SN, Utsunomiya S, Ewing RC, Horreard F, Merkulov A, et al. Colloid transport of plutonium in the far-field of the Mayak Production Association, Russia. Science 2006;314:638–41.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Buchenau J. The Last Caudillo. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Lax PD. Calculus With Applications. 2nd ed. 2014. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ramakrishnan R. The Role of Hierarchies in Exploratory Data Mining. In: Daelemans W, Goethals B, Morik K, editors. Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2008, Antwerp, Belgium, September 15-19, 2008, Proceedings, Part I, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 6–6.

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 Combinatorial Chemistry - an Online journal.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan J. Incredibly Rare Double Eclipse Of The Sun By Earth And The Moon Snapped By Spacecraft. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/incredible-double-eclipse-sun-earth-and-moon-captured-first-time-ever/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Administration of Federal Support of Shore Facilities and Vessels for Research Activities at Oceanographic Institutions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1970.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Kuang S-YH. “And the War Came”: A memorial to devastated lives. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Kelly C. Giving Conservative Films A Head Start, Right Here. New York Times 2012:A27B.

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	Combinatorial Chemistry - an Online journal
ISSN (print)	1464-3383
Scope