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

Bazin, Daniel. 2012. Nuclear physics: symmetrical tin. Nature 486: 330–331.

A journal article with 2 authors

Belle, Mino D. C., and Hugh D. Piggins. 2012. Physiology. Circadian time redoxed. Science (New York, N.Y.) 337: 805–806.

A journal article with 3 authors

Powell, Mark D., Peter J. Vickery, and Timothy A. Reinhold. 2003. Reduced drag coefficient for high wind speeds in tropical cyclones. Nature 422: 279–283.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Foukas, Lazaros C., Marc Claret, Wayne Pearce, Klaus Okkenhaug, Stephen Meek, Emma Peskett, Sara Sancho, Andrew J. H. Smith, Dominic J. Withers, and Bart Vanhaesebroeck. 2006. Critical role for the p110alpha phosphoinositide-3-OH kinase in growth and metabolic regulation. Nature 441: 366–370.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abdel-aleem, Salah. 2010. The Design and Management of Medical Device clinical Trials. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Grewal, Iqbal S., ed. 2009. Therapeutic Targets of the TNF Superfamily. Vol. 647. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cogliati, Benoît, and Yannick Seurin. 2016. EWCDM: An Efficient, Beyond-Birthday Secure, Nonce-Misuse Resistant MAC. In Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2016: 36th Annual International Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, August 14-18, 2016, Proceedings, Part I, ed. Matthew Robshaw and Jonathan Katz, 121–149. 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

Luntz, Stephen. 2015. Scientists Find Traces Of Enormous Solar Storms That Once Hit The Earth. IFLScience. IFLScience. October 28.

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. 1991. Environmental Protection: Solving NASA’s Current Problems Requires Agencywide Emphasis. NSIAD-91-146. 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

Gomez, Silvia. 2012. Support group for caregivers coping with their child diagnosed with autism: A grant proposal. 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

Rao, Tejal. 2017. Comfort Food. New York Times, June 29.

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