How to format your references using the Coordination Chemistry Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 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]

G.A. Kowalchuk, Ecology. Bad news for soil carbon sequestration?, Science 337 (2012) 1049–1050.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.F. Alcorn, J.K. Kolls, Physiology. Killer fat, Science 347 (2015) 26–27.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B. Murray, W.T. Huntress Jr, L.D. Friedman, Mars outposts: a planetary society approach to exploration, Nature 412 (2001) 254–255.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

E.N. Borducchi, J. Liu, J.P. Nkolola, A.M. Cadena, W.-H. Yu, S. Fischinger, T. Broge, P. Abbink, N.B. Mercado, A. Chandrashekar, D. Jetton, L. Peter, K. McMahan, E.T. Moseley, E. Bekerman, J. Hesselgesser, W. Li, M.G. Lewis, G. Alter, R. Geleziunas, D.H. Barouch, Antibody and TLR7 agonist delay viral rebound in SHIV-infected monkeys, Nature 563 (2018) 360–364.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L. Kimberlin, A. zur Linden, L. Ruoff, Atlas of Clinical Imaging and Anatomy of the Equine Head, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

J.J. (jong H. Park, A. Zomaya, H.-Y. Jeong, M. Obaidat, eds., Frontier and Innovation in Future Computing and Communications, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D.J. Eaton, F. Schneider, Radiation Protection, in: M. Keshtgar, K. Pigott, F. Wenz (Eds.), Targeted Intraoperative Radiotherapy in Oncology, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014: pp. 37–43.

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 Coordination Chemistry Reviews.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, The Gut Microbe That Protects Against Peanut Allergies, IFLScience (2014).

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, Acquisition and Utilization of Wind Tunnels by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 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

[1]

J.W. Bornmann, Becoming soldiers: Army Basic Training and the negotiation of identity, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 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

[1]

G. Vecsey, When Loss Means Disappointment, Not Disaster, New York Times (2010) D2.

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	Coordination Chemistry Reviews
Abbreviation	Coord. Chem. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0010-8545
Scope	General Chemistry