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]

Stringer C. Palaeontology: The 100-year mystery of Piltdown Man. Nature 2012;492:177–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ammerman AJ, McClennen CE. URBAN ECOLOGY: Saving Venice. Science 2000;289:1301–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Moreno M, Rosenau M, Oncken O. 2010 Maule earthquake slip correlates with pre-seismic locking of Andean subduction zone. Nature 2010;467:198–202.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Chen C-L, Qi J, Tao J, Zuckermann RN, DeYoreo JJ. Tuning calcite morphology and growth acceleration by a rational design of highly stable protein-mimetics. Sci Rep 2014;4:6266.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Moir I, Seabridge AG. Military Avionics Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Kalia S, Kaith BS, Kaur I, editors. Cellulose Fibers: Bio- and Nano-Polymer Composites: Green Chemistry and Technology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Shoukry Y, Martin P, Tabuada P, Srivastava M. Non-invasive Spoofing Attacks for Anti-lock Braking Systems. In: Bertoni G, Coron J-S, editors. Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2013: 15th International Workshop, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, August 20-23, 2013. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 55–72.

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]

Andrew E. Self-Building 3D Printed Bricks Hint At Future Without Assembly Lines. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/self-building-3d-printed-bricks-hint-future-without-assembly-lines/ (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. NASA: Better Mechanisms Needed for Sharing Lessons Learned. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Baker TN. The Impact of Undergraduate Research Participation on Research Self-Efficacy. Doctoral dissertation. Florida Atlantic University, 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

[1]

Sisario B. Concert Venues Split From Bowery Presents. New York Times 2017:C3.

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

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