How to format your references using the Helvetica Chimica Acta citation style

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

[1]

I. Fuyuno, ‘Olympus finds market rival hard to swallow’, Nature 2005, 438, 913.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. R. Buskirk, R. Green, ‘Biochemistry. Getting past polyproline pauses’, Science 2013, 339, 38–39.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Akselrod, M. H. Herzog, H. Öğmen, ‘Tracing path-guided apparent motion in human primary visual cortex V1’, Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 6063.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Sharpe, U. Ahlgren, P. Perry, B. Hill, A. Ross, J. Hecksher-Sørensen, R. Baldock, D. Davidson, ‘Optical projection tomography as a tool for 3D microscopy and gene expression studies’, Science 2002, 296, 541–545.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Y. Yan, Computational Number Theory and Modern Cryptography, John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd., Fusionopolis Walk, Singapore, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

C. Wandrey, H. Cölfen, Eds. , Analytical Ultracentrifugation VIII, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. De Marsico, R. Distasi, M. Nappi, D. Riccio, in Intelligent Multimedia Analysis for Security Applications (Eds.: H.T. Sencar, S. Velastin, N. Nikolaidis, S. Lian), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010, pp. 79–95.

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 Helvetica Chimica Acta.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, ‘Cat Parasite Modified Into An Effective Cancer Vaccine’, can be found under https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/cat-parasite-modified-effective-cancer-vaccine/, 2014.

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, ADP Systems: FDA Can Reduce Development Risks for Its Import Information System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Z. David, A Practical Approach for Formation Damage Control in Both Miscible and Immiscible CO2 Gas Flooding in Asphaltenic Crude Systems Using Water Slugs and Injection Parameters, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2016.

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]

J. R. Quain, ‘Your Car May Soon Be Able to Read Your Face’, New York Times 2017, B6.

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	Helvetica Chimica Acta
ISSN (print)	0018-019X
ISSN (online)	1522-2675
Scope