How to format your references using the Journal of Molecular Catalysis. A, Chemical citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Molecular Catalysis. A, Chemical. 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

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D.J. Payne, Microbiology. Desperately seeking new antibiotics, Science 321 (2008) 1644–1645.

A journal article with 2 authors

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T.T. Wang, P. Palese, Biochemistry. Catching a moving target, Science 333 (2011) 834–835.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

W.W. Liu, O. Mazor, R.I. Wilson, Thermosensory processing in the Drosophila brain, Nature 519 (2015) 353–357.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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P.L. Geissler, C. Dellago, D. Chandler, J. Hutter, M. Parrinello, Autoionization in liquid water, Science 291 (2001) 2121–2124.

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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P. McPhee, A Companion to the French Revolution, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

R. Brandenburg, Pedagogies for the Future: Leading Quality Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

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M. Crowhurst, Sideline One – Double Thematic Analysis, in: M. Crowhurst (Ed.), Beginning Teachers: Reviewing Disastrous Lessons, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2015: pp. 25–27.

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 Molecular Catalysis. A, Chemical.

Blog post

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D. Andrew, Dark, Cold Days May Have Been What Actually Drove The Dinosaurs Extinct, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dark-cold-days-may-have-been-what-actually-drove-the-dinosaurs-extinct/ (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

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Government Accountability Office, University Funding: Information on the Role of Peer Review at NSF and NIH, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1987.

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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J. Cisewski, Generalized fiducial inference for mixed linear models, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 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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M.L. Philpott, Finding What I Need at the Mall, New York Times (2017) SR10.

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 Molecular Catalysis. A, Chemical
Abbreviation	J. Mol. Catal. A Chem.
ISSN (print)	1381-1169
Scope	Catalysis Process Chemistry and Technology Physical and Theoretical Chemistry