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

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

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Ray, A. Plant Genetics: RNA Cache or Genome Trash? Nature 2005, 437 (7055), E1-2; discussion E2.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Paukner, C.; Koziol, K. K. K. Ultra-Pure Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Fibres Continuously Spun without Promoter. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 3903.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Falnes, P. Ø.; Johansen, R. F.; Seeberg, E. AlkB-Mediated Oxidative Demethylation Reverses DNA Damage in Escherichia Coli. Nature 2002, 419 (6903), 178–182.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Yu, M.; Wu, P.; Widelitz, R. B.; Chuong, C.-M. The Morphogenesis of Feathers. Nature 2002, 420 (6913), 308–312.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Yan, S. Y. Computational Number Theory and Modern Cryptography; John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.: Fusionopolis Walk, Singapore, 2012.

An edited book

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European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2010; Herrmann, C., Terhechte, J. P., Eds.; European Yearbook of International Economic Law; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010; Vol. 1.

A chapter in an edited book

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Zeng, X.; Chauhan, C.; Hou, S. X. Stem Cells in the Drosophila Digestive System. In Transcriptional and Translational Regulation of Stem Cells; Hime, G., Abud, H., Eds.; Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2013; pp 63–78.

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 Education.

Blog post

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Andrew, E. European Bumblebees Under Threat. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/european-bumblebees-under-threat/ (accessed 2018-10-30).

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

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Government Accountability Office. Contracts Awarded by the Social and Rehabilitation Service of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare on a Noncompetitive Basis; B-164031(3); U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Dooling, S. M. Like A Unicorn in Captivity. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 2013.

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

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Hubbard, B. Two Blasts Kill Dozens Near Shrines in Damascus. New York Times. March 11, 2017, p A8.

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	Journal of Chemical Education
Abbreviation	J. Chem. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0021-9584
ISSN (online)	1938-1328
Scope	General Chemistry Education