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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Marris, E. Almost in Bloom. Nature 2008, 452 (7183), 122–124.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Dorin, J. R.; Jackson, I. J. Genetics. Beta-Defensin Repertoire Expands. Science 2007, 318 (5855), 1395.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Blackburn, E. H.; Epel, E. S.; Lin, J. Human Telomere Biology: A Contributory and Interactive Factor in Aging, Disease Risks, and Protection. Science 2015, 350 (6265), 1193–1198.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Rapino, F.; Delaunay, S.; Rambow, F.; Zhou, Z.; Tharun, L.; De Tullio, P.; Sin, O.; Shostak, K.; Schmitz, S.; Piepers, J.; Ghesquière, B.; Karim, L.; Charloteaux, B.; Jamart, D.; Florin, A.; Lambert, C.; Rorive, A.; Jerusalem, G.; Leucci, E.; Dewaele, M.; Vooijs, M.; Leidel, S. A.; Georges, M.; Voz, M.; Peers, B.; Büttner, R.; Marine, J.-C.; Chariot, A.; Close, P. Codon-Specific Translation Reprogramming Promotes Resistance to Targeted Therapy. Nature 2018, 558 (7711), 605–609.

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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Tian, J. Software Quality Engineering; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

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Molecular and Cellular Biology of Platelet Formation: Implications in Health and Disease; Schulze, H., Italiano, J., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

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Jiang, C.; Coenen, F. Graph-Based Image Classification by Weighting Scheme. In Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XVI: Proceedings of AI-2008, the Twenty-eighth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence; Allen, T., Ellis, R., Petridis, M., Eds.; Springer: London, 2009; pp 63–76.

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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Luntz, S. Artificial Lung Grown In Laboratory. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/artificial-lung-grown-laboratory/ (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. Information Technology Management: Small Business Administration Needs Policies and Procedures to Control Key IT Processes; T-AIMD-00-260; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2000.

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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Day, C. Medication-Assisted Treatment: Education for Those Who Assist in the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders Curriculum Development. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2012.

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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Stewart, J. B. In Ruling on Insider Trading, A Court Restores Rationality. New York Times. September 14, 2017, p B1.

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