How to format your references using the Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry. 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

Kahan, D.: Fixing the communications failure. Nature. 463, 296–297 (2010)

A journal article with 2 authors

Morris, S.C., Caron, J.-B.: Halwaxiids and the early evolution of the lophotrochozoans. Science. 315, 1255–1258 (2007)

A journal article with 3 authors

Miyamoto, K., Miyake, S., Yamamura, T.: A synthetic glycolipid prevents autoimmune encephalomyelitis by inducing TH2 bias of natural killer T cells. Nature. 413, 531–534 (2001)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Guo, M., Chong, Y.E., Shapiro, R., Beebe, K., Yang, X.-L., Schimmel, P.: Paradox of mistranslation of serine for alanine caused by AlaRS recognition dilemma. Nature. 462, 808–812 (2009)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Myatt, G.J., Johnson, W.P.: Making Sense of Data III. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2011)

An edited book

McGonagle, J.J.: Proactive Intelligence: The Successful Executive’s Guide to Intelligence. Springer, London (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Gao, F., Xing, C., Wang, G.: Channel Estimation for PLNC Under Frequency Selective Fading Scenario. In: Xing, C. and Wang, G. (eds.) Channel Estimation for Physical Layer Network Coding Systems. pp. 35–57. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2014)

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 Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry.

Blog post

Davis, J.: Researchers Eavesdrop On Arctic Whales To Learn Their Movements, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/researchers-eavesdrop-arctic-whales-learn-their-movements/

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: Organization Conflict of Interest. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1976)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Holloway, C.M.: Evaluating five leadership traits in the rising stars succession planning program, (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

Kelly, L.C.C.: PEARL HARBOR’S INFAMY, MY FATHER’S FAME, (1981)

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 Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry
Abbreviation	J. Incl. Phenom. Macrocycl. Chem.
ISSN (print)	1388-3127
ISSN (online)	1573-1111
Scope	Food Science General Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics