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]

X. Bosch, Anger as Spain boosts R&D figures with defence money, Nature 407 (2000) 664.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

O.G. Vukmirovic, S.M. Tilghman, Exploring genome space, Nature 405 (2000) 820–822.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. Madhu, V. Veeramani, S.-M. Chen, Heteroatom-enriched and renewable banana-stem-derived porous carbon for the electrochemical determination of nitrite in various water samples, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4679.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Honda, T. Yokoyama, Y. Akimoto, H. Tanimoto, M. Teramoto, H. Teramoto, The frequent shift to intermediate flora in preterm delivery cases after abnormal vaginal flora screening, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4799.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C.W. Chase, Next Generation Demand Management, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

T.V. Deven, The Practice of Radiology Education: Challenges and Trends, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Asiki, D. Tsoumakos, N. Koziris, A DHT-Based System for the Management of Loosely Structured, Multidimensional Data, in: A. Hameurlain, J. Küng, R. Wagner, S.W. Liddle, K.-D. Schewe, X. Zhou (Eds.), Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems VI: Special Issue on Database- and Expert-Systems Applications, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 134–166.

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]

E. Andrew, Children With Autism Have Extra Synapses In Their Brains, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/children-autism-have-extra-synapses-their-brains/ (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, Farm Program Modernization: Farm Service Agency Needs to Demonstrate the Capacity to Manage IT Initiatives, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Kreisel, Gabor frames for quasicrystals and K-theory, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 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.D. Shear, K.P. Vogel, Seat at Le Cirque, and a Word With Trump, for $250,000, New York Times (2017) A20.

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