How to format your references using the Journal of Chemical Crystallography citation style

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

Smaglik P (2002) Taking stock of biotech jobs. Nature 417:3

A journal article with 2 authors

Brody H, Miko I (2012) Lenses on biology. Nature 483:S1

A journal article with 3 authors

Gerke J, Lorenz K, Cohen B (2009) Genetic interactions between transcription factors cause natural variation in yeast. Science 323:498–501

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jones TD, Farlow JO, Ruben JA, et al (2000) Cursoriality in bipedal archosaurs. Nature 406:716–718

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cheng VS, Tong JC (2017) Building Sustainability in East Asia. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Kalia S, Fu S-Y (2013) Polymers at Cryogenic Temperatures. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Godøy RI (2009) Chunking Sound for Musical Analysis. In: Ystad S, Kronland-Martinet R, Jensen K (eds) Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval. Genesis of Meaning in Sound and Music: 5th International Symposium, CMMR 2008 Copenhagen, Denmark, May 19-23, 2008 Revised Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 67–80

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 Journal of Chemical Crystallography.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) Giraffes Face “Silent Extinction” As Numbers Drop 40 Percent In 30 years. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1999) Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Federal Efforts to Ensure Continued Delivery of Key State-Administered Benefits. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Haug JJ (2010) A summer literacy intervention for struggling readers at the middle school level using strategies in comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, and positive school climate to improve reading comprehension: An evaluation study. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University

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

Williams J (2017) Australia’s Property Boom Makes Publisher a Target. New York Times 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	Journal of Chemical Crystallography
Abbreviation	J. Chem. Crystallogr.
ISSN (print)	1074-1542
ISSN (online)	1572-8854
Scope	Structural Biology Spectroscopy Condensed Matter Physics