How to format your references using the Computational and Theoretical Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computational and Theoretical Chemistry. 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	Download the output style file
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]

S. Buckingham, Bioinformatics: programmed for success, Nature 425 (2003) 209–215.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H.-R. Wei, F.-G. Deng, Scalable quantum computing based on stationary spin qubits in coupled quantum dots inside double-sided optical microcavities, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7551.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Bhandary, O. Eriksson, B. Sanyal, Defect controlled magnetism in FeP/graphene/Ni(111), Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3405.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Wildermuth, S. Hofferberth, I. Lesanovsky, E. Haller, L.M. Andersson, S. Groth, I. Bar-Joseph, P. Krüger, J. Schmiedmayer, Bose-Einstein condensates: microscopic magnetic-field imaging, Nature 435 (2005) 440.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T. Ndjountche, Digital Electronics 3, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

A. Wanninger, ed., Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates 5: Ecdysozoa III: Hexapoda, 1st ed. 2015, Springer, Vienna, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. Gerard, O.L. Liu, S. Corliss, K. Varma, M. Spitulnik, M.C. Linn, Professional Development Programs for Teaching with Visualizations, in: C. Mouza, N. Lavigne (Eds.), Emerging Technologies for the Classroom: A Learning Sciences Perspective, Springer, New York, NY, 2013: pp. 63–78.

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 Computational and Theoretical Chemistry.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Terry Pratchett Gave Us A Million Dollars For Alzheimer’s Research – Here’s What We Did With It, IFLScience (2015).

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, Changes Needed in Administering Relief to Industries Hurt by Overseas Competition, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. Howard, Aging well adult day care center, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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]

M. Fernandez, A. Southall, Suspect Dead After Gun and Bomb Attack on Dallas Police, New York Times (2015) A16.

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	Computational and Theoretical Chemistry
Abbreviation	Comput. Theor. Chem.
ISSN (print)	2210-271X
Scope	Biochemistry Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics