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

de Lozanne A. Physics. Music of the spheres at the atomic scale. Science. 2004;305(5682):348-349.

A journal article with 2 authors

DeLong EF, Karl DM. Genomic perspectives in microbial oceanography. Nature. 2005;437(7057):336-342.

A journal article with 3 authors

Freimund DL, Aflatooni K, Batelaan H. Observation of the Kapitza-Dirac effect. Nature. 2001;413(6852):142-143.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhang F, Wang Z, Dong W, et al. Transcriptomic and proteomic analysis reveals mechanisms of embryo abortion during chrysanthemum cross breeding. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6536.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davis TB. Audel Industrial Multi-Craft Mini-Ref. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Yu E, Dobbie G, Jarke M, Purao S, eds. Conceptual Modeling: 33rd International Conference, ER 2014, Atlanta, GA, USA, October 27-29, 2014. Proceedings. Vol 8824. Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Boehm M, Habich D, Preissler S, Lehner W, Wloka U. Vectorizing Instance-Based Integration Processes. In: Filipe J, Cordeiro J, eds. Enterprise Information Systems: 11th International Conference, ICEIS 2009, Milan, Italy, May 6-10, 2009. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer; 2009:40-52.

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. Researchers Discover Extra DNA Base. IFLScience. June 24, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-discover-extra-dna-base-thats-stable-mice/

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. Space-Based Lasers. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sullivan TJ. Molecular Ecology, Disease Ecology, and Candidate Genes for Pathogen Resistance in the Blue Crab Callinectes Sapidus. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana; 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

Vecsey G. A Rivalry to Add to the City’s Rich History. New York Times. November 26, 2012:D1.

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