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

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

Powell, Kendall. 2005. Make your point. Nature 434: 416–417.

A journal article with 2 authors

Münck, Eckard, and Emile L. Bominaar. 2008. Chemistry. Bringing stability to highly reduced iron-sulfur clusters. Science (New York, N.Y.) 321: 1452–1453.

A journal article with 3 authors

Siu, Z. B., M. B. A. Jalil, and S. G. Tan. 2014. Topological state transport in topological insulators under the influence of hexagonal warping and exchange coupling to in-plane magnetizations. Scientific reports 4: 5062.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Juodkazis, S., N. Mukai, R. Wakaki, A. Yamaguchi, S. Matsuo, and H. Misawa. 2000. Reversible phase transitions in polymer gels induced by radiation forces. Nature 408: 178–181.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Holmes, Jeffrey D. 2016. Great Myths of Education and Learning. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bičák, Jiří, and Tomáš Ledvinka, ed. 2014. General Relativity, Cosmology and Astrophysics: Perspectives 100 years after Einstein’s stay in Prague. Vol. 177. Fundamental Theories of Physics. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Swienty, Olivier, Mathias Jahnke, Holger Kumke, and Simone Reppermund. 2008. Effective Visual Scanning of Geographic Information. In Visual Information Systems. Web-Based Visual Information Search and Management: 10th International Conference, VISUAL 2008, Salerno, Italy, September 11-12, 2008. Proceedings, ed. Monica Sebillo, Giuliana Vitiello, and Gerald Schaefer, 19–30. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Sciences.

Blog post

Taub, Ben. 2015. Why You Shouldn’t Rake Your Leaves This Fall. IFLScience. IFLScience. November 16.

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. 2004. Office of Federal Student Aid: Better Strategic and Human Capital Planning Would Help Sustain Management Progress. GAO-05-31. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

San, Khin Aye. 2017. Synthesis of Alkanethiolate-Capped Metal Nanoparticles Using Alkyl Thiosulfate Ligand Precursors for Selective Catalytic Reactions. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kenigsberg, Ben. 2017. Starless Dreams. New York Times, January 19.

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 Sciences
ISSN (print)	0974-3626
ISSN (online)	0973-7103
Scope