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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Knill, E. Quantum Computing with Realistically Noisy Devices. Nature 2005, 434 (7029), 39–44.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Simons, K.; Mattaj, I. W. Retrospective. Lennart Philipson (1929-2011). Science 2011, 333 (6043), 711.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Plotkin, J. B.; Dushoff, J.; Fraser, H. B. Detecting Selection Using a Single Genome Sequence of M. Tuberculosis and P. Falciparum. Nature 2004, 428 (6986), 942–945.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Wang, Y.; Rogado, N. S.; Cava, R. J.; Ong, N. P. Spin Entropy as the Likely Source of Enhanced Thermopower in Na(x)Co2O4. Nature 2003, 423 (6938), 425–428.

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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Storhas, W. Bioverfahrensentwicklung; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2013.

An edited book

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Topics in Cryptology –- CT-RSA 2015: The Cryptographer’s Track at the RSA Conference 2015, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 20-24, 2015. Proceedings; Nyberg, K., Ed.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; Vol. 9048.

A chapter in an edited book

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Lee-Makiyama, H.; Verschelde, B. RETRACTED CHAPTER: OECD BEPS: Reconciling Global Trade, Taxation Principles and the Digital Economy. In The Challenge of the Digital Economy: Markets, Taxation and Appropriate Economic Models; Boccia, F., Leonardi, R., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp 55–68.

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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Luntz, S. Endangered Turtle Gets Prosthetic Fin. IFLScience.

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. Space Surveillance Network: Appropriate Controls Needed Over Data Access; GAO-02-402RNI; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2002.

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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Arntson, J. D. Heidegger and Disclosive Rhetoric: Two Divergent Paths in Immanence and Transcendence. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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

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Kenigsberg, B. The Wasted Times. New York Times. December 15, 2016, p C13.

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