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]

Torres-Reveron A. Hispanic people start leaping over barriers to better jobs. Nature. 2009;460(7258):949.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Raman KV, Moodera JS. Materials chemistry: A magnetic facelift for non-magnetic metals. Nature. 2015;524(7563):42–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Pobbati AV, Stein A, Fasshauer D. N- to C-terminal SNARE complex assembly promotes rapid membrane fusion. Science. 2006;313(5787):673–676.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Pokholok DK, Zeitlinger J, Hannett NM, et al. Activated signal transduction kinases frequently occupy target genes. Science. 2006;313(5786):533–536.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Grant G. The Water Sensitive City. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Miller S. Ethical and Philosophical Consideration of the Dual-Use Dilemma in the Biological Sciences. Selgelid MJ, editor. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Reitz-Krueger CL, Nagel AG, Guarnera LA, et al. Community Influence on Adolescent Development. In: Gullotta TP, Plant RW, Evans MA, editors. Handbook of Adolescent Behavioral Problems: Evidence-Based Approaches to Prevention and Treatment. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2015. p. 71–84.

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]

Andrews R. “Us Versus Them” Root Of Racist Behavior Found In Old World Primates [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/us-versus-them-root-racist-behavior-found-old-world-primates/.

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. Reagan National Airport: Capacity to Handle Additional Flights and Impact on Other Area Airports. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999. Report No.: RCED-99-234. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Deolikar PP. Lecture Video Search Engine Using Hadoop MapReduce [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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]

Crow K. Which Fork Should You Use When Eating Your Words? New York Times. 2000 Jul 16;146.

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