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

Knight D. Kinds of minds. Nature. 2007;447(7141):149.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kimmins S, Sassone-Corsi P. Chromatin remodelling and epigenetic features of germ cells. Nature. 2005;434(7033):583-589.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shimizu GKH, Taylor JM, Kim S. Chemistry. Proton conduction with metal-organic frameworks. Science. 2013;341(6144):354-355.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ferguson AD, Chakraborty R, Smith BS, Esser L, van der Helm D, Deisenhofer J. Structural basis of gating by the outer membrane transporter FecA. Science. 2002;295(5560):1715-1719.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alsop A. Continuing Professional Development in Health and Social Care. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; 2013.

An edited book

Talaba D, Amditis A, eds. Product Engineering: Tools and Methods Based on Virtual Reality. Springer Netherlands; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Villela-Petit M. The Transcendental and the Singular: Husserl and the Existential Thinkers Between the Two World Wars. In: Tymieniecka AT, ed. Phenomenology and Existentialism in the Twentieth Century: Book One New Waves of Philosophical Inspirations. Springer Netherlands; 2009:31-43.

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

Davis J. Scientists Break Gene-Editing Record To Create Animal Organs For Human Transplantation. IFLScience. Published October 13, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-break-gene-editing-record-create-animal-organs-human-transplantation/

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. Automated Systems: Treasury’s Efforts to Improve Its Payroll and Personnel Systems. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Murray RW. The Florida Migrant Education Program: An Analysis of Programmatic and Expenditure Practices. Doctoral dissertation. Florida Atlantic University; 2010.

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

Yablonsky L. Exhibit A-List. New York Times. October 18, 2009:M226.

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