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]

Fischer KM. Waning buoyancy in the crustal roots of old mountains. Nature. 2002;417:933–936.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Grill E, Christmann A. Botany. A plant receptor with a big family. Science. 2007;315:1676–1677.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Yu F, Ma J, Han S. Adsorption of tetracycline from aqueous solutions onto multi-walled carbon nanotubes with different oxygen contents. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5326.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Xu X, Clark JM, Forster CA, et al. A basal tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China. Nature. 2006;439:715–718.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Myers FR. Get the Job You Want, Even When No One’s Hiring. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Lütjering G. Titanium. 2nd ed. Williams JC, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Raz AE, Schicktanz S. Contextualizing the Cultural and Medico-Legal Debate on Adult Genetic Testing. In: Schicktanz S, editor. Comparative Empirical Bioethics: Dilemmas of Genetic Testing and Euthanasia in Israel and Germany. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 45–53.

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]

Fang J. Ancient Virus Revived From 700-Year-Old Caribou Feces [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-virus-dna-revived-700-year-old-caribou-feces/.

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. Aviation Safety: FAA’s Safety Inspection Management System Lacks Adequate Oversight. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989. Report No.: RCED-90-36. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Lew MM. Hydroxyl, Hydroperoxyl, and Organic Peroxy Radical Chemistry in Forested Areas: Measurements, Modeling and Implications for Atmospheric Chemistry [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana 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]

Kishkovsky S. Russian Legislators Vote to Condemn Anti-Semitism. New York Times. 2005 Feb 5;A8.

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

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