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]

P.H. Gleick, Global freshwater resources: soft-path solutions for the 21st century, Science. 302 (2003) 1524–1528.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.-H. Jeoung, H. Dobbek, Carbon dioxide activation at the Ni,Fe-cluster of anaerobic carbon monoxide dehydrogenase, Science. 318 (2007) 1461–1464.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

W.F. Martin, F.L. Sousa, N. Lane, Evolution. Energy at life’s origin, Science. 344 (2014) 1092–1093.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Yoshimaru, M. Komatsu, E. Tashiro, M. Imoto, H. Osada, Y. Miyoshi, J. Honda, M. Sasa, T. Katagiri, Xanthohumol suppresses oestrogen-signalling in breast cancer through the inhibition of BIG3-PHB2 interactions, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7355.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Minoli, IP Multicast with Applications to IPTV and Mobile DVB-H, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2007.

An edited book

[1]

S. Miller, L.D. Leve, P.K. Kerig, eds., Delinquent Girls: Contexts, Relationships, and Adaptation, Springer, New York, NY, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Z. Molnár, G. López-Bendito, D. Blakey, A. Thompson, S. Higashi, The Earliest Thalamocortical Interactions, in: R. Erzurumlu, W. Guido, Z. Molnár (Eds.), Development and Plasticity in Sensory Thalamus and Cortex, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2006: pp. 54–78.

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

[1]

J. Davis, Smoke From Africa’s Agricultural Fires Inhibit The Formation Of Rain Clouds, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/smoke-africas-agricultural-fires-inhibits-formation-rain-clouds/ (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, Federal Aviation Administration’s Advanced Automation System Investment, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Virchez Azuara, A human resource perspective on the development of workforce agility, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2015.

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]

B. Sisario, Logic Streams Way To Top of Album Chart, New York Times. (2017) C3.

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

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