How to format your references using the Education in Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Education in Chemistry. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

D. Tutu, Science, 2011, 331, 689.

A journal article with 2 authors

M. A. Long and M. S. Fee, Nature, 2008, 456, 189–194.

A journal article with 3 authors

R. S. Vieira-Pires, A. Szollosi and J. H. Morais-Cabral, Nature, 2013, 496, 323–328.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

D. L. Barber, E. J. Wherry, D. Masopust, B. Zhu, J. P. Allison, A. H. Sharpe, G. J. Freeman and R. Ahmed, Nature, 2006, 439, 682–687.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

P. Barbosa, D. L. Berry and C. S. Kary, Insect Histology, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

M. Hotokka, E. J. Brändas, J. Maruani and G. Delgado-Barrio, Eds., Advances in Quantum Methods and Applications in Chemistry, Physics, and Biology, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2013, vol. 27.

A chapter in an edited book

E. Filos, in Balanced Automation Systems for Future Manufacturing Networks: 9th IFIP WG 5.5 International Conference, BASYS 2010, Valencia, Spain, July 21-23, 2010. Proceedings, eds. Á. Ortiz, R. D. Franco and P. G. Gasquet, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010, pp. 28–35.

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 Education in Chemistry.

Blog post

S. Luntz, Mysterious Disease Causes Sea Stars To Disintegrate, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/mysterious-disease-causes-sea-stars-disintegrate/, (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, Student Financial Aid: Monitoring Aid Greater Than Federally Defined Need Could Help Address Student Loan Indebtedness, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

A. P. Williams, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

S. Craig, New York Times, 2016, A1.

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	Education in Chemistry
ISSN (print)	0013-1350
ISSN (online)	1749-5326
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