How to format your references using the CrystEngComm citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for CrystEngComm. 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

L. Venema, Nature, 2011, 479, 309.

A journal article with 2 authors

K. D. Tanaka and K. Ueda, Science, 2005, 308, 653.

A journal article with 3 authors

D. E. Bredesen, R. V. Rao and P. Mehlen, Nature, 2006, 443, 796–802.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

A. H. Knoll, M. R. Walter, G. M. Narbonne and N. Christie-Blick, Science, 2004, 305, 621–622.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

D. Raz, A. Juhola, J. Serrat-Fernandez and A. Galis, Fast and Efficient Context-Aware Services, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

J. Lee, N. Novikov and V. Turkevich, Eds., Innovative Superhard Materials and Sustainable Coatings for Advanced Manufacturing: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Innovative Superhard Materials and Sustainable Coatings Kiev, Ukraine 12–15 May 2004, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2005, vol. 200.

A chapter in an edited book

L. A. B. Kowada, R. de A. Hausen and C. M. H. de Figueiredo, in Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: 5th Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2010, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 31-September 3, 2010. Proceedings, eds. C. E. Ferreira, S. Miyano and P. F. Stadler, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010, pp. 35–46.

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 CrystEngComm.

Blog post

E. Andrew, The Secret Maoist Chinese Operation That Conquered Malaria – And Won A Nobel, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/secret-maoist-chinese-operation-conquered-malaria-and-won-nobel/, (accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office, Federal Aviation Administration: Key Issues in Ensuring the Efficient Development and Safe Operation of the Next Generation Air Transportation System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

N. L. Simon-Owens, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2010.

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

G. G. Gustines, New York Times, 2015, C2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	CrystEngComm
Abbreviation	CrystEngComm
ISSN (online)	1466-8033
Scope	General Chemistry General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics