How to format your references using the Inorganics citation style

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

Cheung, F. Modern TCM: Enter the Clinic. Nature 2011, 480, S94-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rick, T.C.; Erlandson, J.M. Anthropology. Coastal Exploitation. Science 2009, 325, 952–953.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hernández, J.V.; Kay, E.R.; Leigh, D.A. A Reversible Synthetic Rotary Molecular Motor. Science 2004, 306, 1532–1537.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wise, M.; Calvin, K.; Thomson, A.; Clarke, L.; Bond-Lamberty, B.; Sands, R.; Smith, S.J.; Janetos, A.; Edmonds, J. Implications of Limiting CO2 Concentrations for Land Use and Energy. Science 2009, 324, 1183–1186.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boillot, M. Advanced Smart Grids for Distribution System Operators: Volume 1; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2014; ISBN 9781119054030.

An edited book

Healthcare Knowledge Management: Issues, Advances, and Successes; Bali, R.K., Dwivedi, A.N., Eds.; Health Informatics; Springer: New York, NY, 2007; ISBN 9780387335407.

A chapter in an edited book

Wu, S.; Fan, Y.; Tian, Y. Hepatobiliary Surgery. In Atlas of Single-Incision Laparoscopic Operations in General Surgery; Wu, S., Fan, Y., Tian, Y., Eds.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2013; pp. 183–261 ISBN 9789400769540.

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 Inorganics.

Blog post

Davis, J. Charging For Plastic Bags In England Leads To An 85 Percent Drop In Their Use Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/charging-for-plastic-bags-in-england-leads-to-an-85-percent-drop-in-their-use/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 Higher Education: Issues Related to Law School Cost and Access; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2009;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sarantopoulos, N.D. The Relationship between Values and Leadership Styles of Nonprofit Leaders. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ, 2008.

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

Walsh, M.W.; Yaccino, S. In Embattled Detroit, No Talk of Sharing Pain Between Retirees and Bondholders. New York Times 2013, B1.

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	Inorganics
Abbreviation	Inorganics
ISSN (online)	2304-6740
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