How to format your references using the Crystallography Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Crystallography 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]

Larson RG. Biophysics. Going with the flow. Science. 2007;318:57–58.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Giovannoni SJ, Stingl U. Molecular diversity and ecology of microbial plankton. Nature. 2005;437:343–348.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hedrick TL, Cheng B, Deng X. Wingbeat time and the scaling of passive rotational damping in flapping flight. Science. 2009;324:252–255.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Mainland JD, Bremner EA, Young N, et al. Olfactory plasticity: one nostril knows what the other learns. Nature. 2002;419:802.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Volpe MA. Rethinking Christian Identity. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Erwig M, Paige RF, Wyk EV, editors. Software Language Engineering: 6th International Conference, SLE 2013, Indianapolis, IN, USA, October 26-28, 2013. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kuś Z, Nawrat A. Object Tracking in a Picture during Rapid Camera Movements. In: Nawrat A, Kuś Z, editors. Vision Based Systemsfor UAV Applications. Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing; 2013. p. 77–91.

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 Crystallography Reviews.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. What Does a Nuclear Explosion in Space Look Like? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/what-does-nuclear-explosion-space-look/.

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. Federal-Aid Highways: Federal Requirements for Highways May Influence Funding Decisions and Create Challenges, but Benefits and Costs Are Not Tracked. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008. Report No.: GAO-09-36. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Knoth KC. Biological Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences: An Examination of an Introductory Level Implementation [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois 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]

Schwartz J. At Exxon, Nominee Steered Company’s ‘Evolution’ on Climate. New York Times. 2016 Dec 29;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	Crystallography Reviews
Abbreviation	Crystallogr. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0889-311X
ISSN (online)	1476-3508
Scope	Biochemistry Structural Biology General Chemistry General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics