How to format your references using the Journal of Chromatography A citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Chromatography A. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

J.E. Parks 2nd, Chemistry. Less costly catalysts for controlling engine emissions, Science 327 (2010) 1584–1585.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Y. Politi, J.C. Weaver, Biomineralization. Built for tough conditions, Science 347 (2015) 712–713.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.V. Bugreev, O.M. Mazina, A.V. Mazin, Rad54 protein promotes branch migration of Holliday junctions, Nature 442 (2006) 590–593.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

X.L. Deng, T. Takami, J.W. Son, E.J. Kang, T. Kawai, B.H. Park, Effect of concentration gradient on ionic current rectification in polyethyleneimine modified glass nano-pipettes, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. D’Andrea, J. Sjogren, Veterinary Technician’s Large Animal Daily Reference Guide, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

H.-F. Huang, J.-Z. Sheng, eds., Gamete and Embryo-fetal Origins of Adult Diseases, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T. Andreescu, D. Andrica, Olympiad-Caliber Problems, in: D. Andrica (Ed.), Complex Numbers from A to ... Z, Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, 2014: pp. 175–275.

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 Chromatography A.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Eating Peanuts Early in Life May Prevent Peanut Allergies, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/eating-peanuts-early-life-may-prevent-peanut-allergies/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, DOD and VA: Systematic Data Sharing Would Help Expedite Servicemembers’ Transition to VA Services, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. Castro, Faculty unions and their effects on university shared governance, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

S. Hodara, A Master of Metallurgy, New York Times (2015) WE10.

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 Chromatography A
Abbreviation	J. Chromatogr. A
ISSN (print)	0021-9673
Scope	Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Organic Chemistry General Medicine