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

Becchetti FD (2002) Nuclear fusion. Evidence for nuclear reactions in imploding bubbles. Science 295:1850

A journal article with 2 authors

Weeds A, Yeoh S (2001) Structure. Action at the Y-branch. Science 294:1660–1661

A journal article with 3 authors

Kislev ME, Hartmann A, Bar-Yosef O (2006) Early domesticated fig in the Jordan Valley. Science 312:1372–1374

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Li Y, Liu Y, Xia W, et al (2013) Age-dependent alterations of decorin glycosaminoglycans in human skin. Sci Rep 3:2422

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hoskins BJ, James IN (2014) Fluid Dynamics of the Midlatitude Atmosphere. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester

An edited book

Herrera F (2016) Multilabel Classification: Problem Analysis, Metrics and Techniques. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Novo J, Sierra CV, Santos J, Penedo MG (2014) Using Evolved Artificial Neural Networks for Providing an Emergent Segmentation with an Active Net Model. In: Tweedale JW, Jain LC (eds) Recent Advances in Knowledge-based Paradigms and Applications: Enhanced Applications Using Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Techniques. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 57–72

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 Journal of Chemical Crystallography.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Why We Need To Listen To The Real Experts In Science. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/why-we-need-listen-real-experts-science/. 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 (1998) FCC: Vehicle Monitoring Systems. 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

Khatib E (2010) A phenomenological study on the potential impact of implementing information systems in midsize corporations. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Whiteside K (2016) From Olympic Rings to a Circus Ring. New York Times B8

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