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

Humphries, C. Screening: Testing Times. Nature 2012, 488, S8-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Loeb, A.; Waxman, E. Cosmic Gamma-Ray Background from Structure Formation in the Intergalactic Medium. Nature 2000, 405, 156–158.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vreeland, R.H.; Rosenzweig, W.D.; Powers, D.W. Isolation of a 250 Million-Year-Old Halotolerant Bacterium from a Primary Salt Crystal. Nature 2000, 407, 897–900.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bianco, A.; Poukkula, M.; Cliffe, A.; Mathieu, J.; Luque, C.M.; Fulga, T.A.; Rørth, P. Two Distinct Modes of Guidance Signalling during Collective Migration of Border Cells. Nature 2007, 448, 362–365.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bma Everyday Medical Ethics and Law; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2013; ISBN 9781118384855.

An edited book

Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making: Theory and Applications with Recent Developments; Kahraman, C., Ed.; Springer Optimization and Its Applications; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2008; Vol. 16; ISBN 9780387768120.

A chapter in an edited book

Sarenac, D. Modal Logic for Qualitative Dynamics. In Dynamic Formal Epistemology; Girard, P., Roy, O., Marion, M., Eds.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2011; pp. 75–101 ISBN 9789400700734.

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

Evans, K. Coral Fish Are Less Stressed When They Find Their Shoal Mates (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 Research and Development: Counterdrug Technology Assessment Center’s Process for Funding Projects; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1999;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Watson, K.L. Putting Together the Pieces of a Social Cognition Deficit: A Retrospective Case Study. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, 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

Feeney, K. Learning To Make Cheese By Hand. New York Times 2008, NJ9.

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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