How to format your references using the Dalton Transactions citation style

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

R. S. Kerbel, Science, 2006, 312, 1171–1175.

A journal article with 2 authors

E. D. Rosen and B. M. Spiegelman, Nature, 2006, 444, 847–853.

A journal article with 3 authors

P. J. Applegate, T. V. Lowell and R. B. Alley, Science, 2008, 320, 746; author reply 746.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

I. R. Hall, I. N. McCave, N. J. Shackleton, G. P. Weedon and S. E. Harris, Nature, 2001, 412, 809–812.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

J. Smed and H. Hakonen, Algorithms and Networking for Computer Games, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

F. Redmill and T. Anderson, Eds., Constituents of Modern System-safety Thinking: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Safety-critical Systems Symposium, Southampton, UK, 8–10 February 2005, Springer, London, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

S. Chattopadhyay, M. Mitra and S. Sengupta, in Electric Power Quality, eds. M. Mitra and S. Sengupta, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011, pp. 17–34.

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 Dalton Transactions.

Blog post

E. Andrew, Titan’s Sunsets Give Insight To Hazy Atmospheres of Exoplanets, https://www.iflscience.com/space/titan’s-sunsets-give-insight-hazy-atmospheres-exoplanets/, (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, Gas Pipeline Safety: Preliminary Observations on the Implementation of the Integrity Management Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

B. S. Hardiman, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2012.

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

M. Cooper, New York Times, 2017, C3.

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	Dalton Transactions
Abbreviation	Dalton Trans.
ISSN (print)	1477-9226
ISSN (online)	1477-9234
Scope	Inorganic Chemistry