How to format your references using the Inorganic Chemistry citation style

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

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Kiehl, J. Climate Change. Lessons from Earth’s Past. Science 2011, 331 (6014), 158–159.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Collini, E.; Scholes, G. D. Coherent Intrachain Energy Migration in a Conjugated Polymer at Room Temperature. Science 2009, 323 (5912), 369–373.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Antón, S. C.; Potts, R.; Aiello, L. C. Human Evolution. Evolution of Early Homo: An Integrated Biological Perspective. Science 2014, 345 (6192), 1236828.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Lohmann, K. J.; Cain, S. D.; Dodge, S. A.; Lohmann, C. M. Regional Magnetic Fields as Navigational Markers for Sea Turtles. Science 2001, 294 (5541), 364–366.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Srivastava, S. P. Developments in Lubricant Technology; John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, New Jersey, 2014.

An edited book

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Disaster Management: Enabling Resilience; Masys, A., Ed.; Lecture Notes in Social Networks; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

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Akgün, T.; Gevrekci, M. Accelerating Super-Resolution Reconstruction Using GPU by CUDA. In Advances in Computational Science, Engineering and Information Technology: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Science, Engineering and Information Technology (CCSEIT-2013), KTO Karatay University, June 7-9, 2013, Konya,Turkey - Volume 1; Nagamalai, D., Kumar, A., Annamalai, A., Eds.; Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Springer International Publishing: Heidelberg, 2013; pp 47–58.

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 Inorganic Chemistry.

Blog post

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Andrew, E. Watch: Sea Lion Drags Girl Into Water In Richmond, BC. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sealion-drags-girl/ (accessed 2018-10-30).

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

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Government Accountability Office. Army Networks: Opportunities Exist to Better Utilize Results from Network Integration Evaluations; GAO-13-711; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Skutt, S. Midlife Metamorphosis: Archetypal Imaginal Psychology in Midlife Rite of Passage. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA, 2017.

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

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Kelly, C. For Many, Thrift Shops Are a Wardrobe Essential. New York Times. April 26, 2008, p C6.

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	Inorganic Chemistry
Abbreviation	Inorg. Chem.
ISSN (print)	0020-1669
ISSN (online)	1520-510X
Scope	Inorganic Chemistry Physical and Theoretical Chemistry