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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Chromatography B. 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]

G. Evan, Cancer. Taking a back door to target Myc, Science 335 (2012) 293–294.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Bremner, J. Sage, Cancer: The origin of human retinoblastoma, Nature 514 (2014) 312–313.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. Pelkmans, D. Püntener, A. Helenius, Local actin polymerization and dynamin recruitment in SV40-induced internalization of caveolae, Science 296 (2002) 535–539.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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N. Sano, H. Wang, M. Chhowalla, I. Alexandrou, G.A. Amaratunga, Synthesis of carbon “onions” in water, Nature 414 (2001) 506–507.

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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J. Bowling, Diagnostic Dermoscopy, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2011.

An edited book

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M.E. Celebi, G. Schaefer, eds., Color Medical Image Analysis, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

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A. Bertelsen, Irving Gottesman and the Schizophrenia Spectrum, in: M.S. Ritsner (Ed.), Handbook of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Volume I: Conceptual Issues and Neurobiological Advances, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011: pp. 115–125.

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 B.

Blog post

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R. Andrews, Zika Infections During Rio 2016 Olympic Games Could Create A “Full-Blown Global Health Disaster,” IFLScience (2016).

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, Aviation Competition: Issues Related to the Proposed United Airlines-US Airways Merger, 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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R. Ortega, Effects of cultural and linguistic differences in breast cancer screening behaviors among elderly Latina women, 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

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L. Greenhouse, Justices Turn Aside Case of Man Accusing C.I.A. of Torture, New York Times (2007) A20.

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 B
Abbreviation	J. Chromatogr. B Analyt. Technol. Biomed. Life Sci.
ISSN (print)	1570-0232
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Clinical Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry General Medicine