How to format your references using the International Journal of Chemical and Analytical Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Chemical and Analytical Science. 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

Bargmann CI. Comparative chemosensation from receptors to ecology. Nature. 2006;444(7117):295-301.

A journal article with 2 authors

Walczyk T, von Blanckenburg F. Natural iron isotope variations in human blood. Science. 2002;295(5562):2065-2066.

A journal article with 3 authors

Plotkin JB, Dushoff J, Fraser HB. Detecting selection using a single genome sequence of M. tuberculosis and P. falciparum. Nature. 2004;428(6986):942-945.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Desmurget M, Reilly KT, Richard N, Szathmari A, Mottolese C, Sirigu A. Movement intention after parietal cortex stimulation in humans. Science. 2009;324(5928):811-813.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lader EW. Field Guide to the Arrhythmias. John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Aptekar L. Street Children and Homeless Youth: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. (Stoecklin D, ed.). Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Nagurney A, Masoumi AH. Supply Chain Network Design of a Sustainable Blood Banking System. In: Boone T, Jayaraman V, Ganeshan R, eds. Sustainable Supply Chains: Models, Methods, and Public Policy Implications. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science. Springer; 2012:49-72.

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 International Journal of Chemical and Analytical Science.

Blog post

Fang J. Ancient Stone Toolmaking Evolved Multiple Times Across Continents. IFLScience. September 26, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-stone-toolmaking-evolved-multiple-times-across-continents/

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. Spectrum Management: Better Knowledge Needed to Take Advantage of Technologies That May Improve Spectrum Efficiency. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hong HJ. Acrolein Modification of Human Apolipoprotein A-I Impairs Binding to Phosphatidylglycerol and Lipopolysaccharide of Gram-Negative Bacteria. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

Wagner J. Dominican Players Hone Skills With AidOf Broomsticks. New York Times. October 6, 2017:SP1.

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	International Journal of Chemical and Analytical Science
ISSN (print)	0976-1209
Scope