How to format your references using the Inorganic Chemistry Communications citation style

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

[1]

M.W. Moyer, Cell banks: life blood, Nature. 498 (2013) S16.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Fortágh, C. Zimmermann, PHYSICS: Toward Atom Chips, Science. 307 (2005) 860–861.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Reichenbach, M. Mobilia, E. Frey, Mobility promotes and jeopardizes biodiversity in rock-paper-scissors games, Nature. 448 (2007) 1046–1049.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. Zhu, W. Hu, H. Wu, X. Hu, No evident dose-response relationship between cellular ROS level and its cytotoxicity--a paradoxical issue in ROS-based cancer therapy, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5029.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Burghardt, B. Walls, Managed Futures for Institutional Investors, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

M. Spoor, ed., Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict: A Critical “Development” Reader, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Vasa, A. Michaelowa, Uncertainty in Climate Policy – Impacts on Market Mechanisms, in: G. Gramelsberger, J. Feichter (Eds.), Climate Change and Policy: The Calculability of Climate Change and the Challenge of Uncertainty, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 127–144.

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 Communications.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, Astronomers Have Discovered A New Nearby Super-Earth, IFLScience. (2016).

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, Transportation-Disadvantaged Populations: Federal Agencies Are Taking Steps to Assist States and Local Agencies in Coordinating Transportation Services, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.N. Wong, The model minority at risk: Barriers to mental health access for Chinese Americans, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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]

G. Allen, P. Goldman, Little Restored Schoolhouse, New York Times. (2009) A31.

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	Inorganic Chemistry Communications
Abbreviation	Inorg. Chem. Commun.
ISSN (print)	1387-7003
Scope	Inorganic Chemistry Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Materials Chemistry