How to format your references using the Foundations of Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Foundations of 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

Voorhees, P.W.: Materials science. Step dances on silicon. Science. 313, 1247–1249 (2006)

A journal article with 2 authors

Chopra, H.D., Wuttig, M.: Non-Joulian magnetostriction. Nature. 521, 340–343 (2015)

A journal article with 3 authors

Chaudhuri, J., Khuong, C., Alt, F.W.: Replication protein A interacts with AID to promote deamination of somatic hypermutation targets. Nature. 430, 992–998 (2004)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

von Mering, C., Hugenholtz, P., Raes, J., Tringe, S.G., Doerks, T., Jensen, L.J., Ward, N., Bork, P.: Quantitative phylogenetic assessment of microbial communities in diverse environments. Science. 315, 1126–1130 (2007)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sexton, D.: Trump University Marketing 101. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2009)

An edited book

Cazals, F., Kornprobst, P. eds: Modeling in Computational Biology and Biomedicine: A Multidisciplinary Endeavor. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Schrenk, P., Hall-Findlay, E.J., Fitzal, F., Grisotti, A., Casella, D., Calabrese, C., Rageth, C., Schöndorf, N.K., Rainsbury, R.M., Huemer, G.M.: OPS and Breast Conserving Surgery (BSC). In: Fitzal, F. and Schrenk, P. (eds.) Oncoplastic Breast Surgery: A Guide to Clinical Practice. pp. 45–132. Springer, Vienna (2010)

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 Foundations of Chemistry.

Blog post

Davis, J.: Earliest Evidence Of Human Impact On Geological Processes Is 11,500 Years Old, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/earliest-evidence-of-human-impact-on-geological-processes-dates-to-11500-years-ago/

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: NASA’s Clipperton Project. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1996)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Aparicio, E.M.: Examining Latina/o STEM degree aspirations, (2015)

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

Koblin, J.: The President’s Prime Time, (2017)

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Voorhees 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Chopra and Wuttig 2015; Voorhees 2006).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Chopra and Wuttig 2015)
Three or more authors: (von Mering et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Foundations of Chemistry
Abbreviation	Found. Chem.
ISSN (print)	1386-4238
ISSN (online)	1572-8463
Scope	History Biochemistry General Chemistry

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