How to format your references using the Journal of Solution Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Solution 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

Briggs, D.E.G.: Adolf Seilacher (1925-2014). Nature. 509, 428 (2014)

A journal article with 2 authors

Yang, X., Su, H.: Cuprate-like electronic properties in superlattices with Ag(II)F₂ square sheet. Sci. Rep. 4, 5420 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun, L., Xie, Z., Zhao, J.: A 3,000-year record of penguin populations. Nature. 407, 858 (2000)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rijavec, M., Korošec, P., Žavbi, M., Kern, I., Malovrh, M.M.: Let-7a is differentially expressed in bronchial biopsies of patients with severe asthma. Sci. Rep. 4, 6103 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lippold, J.C.: Welding Metallurgy and Weldability. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ (2015)

An edited book

Tribastone, M., Gilmore, S. eds: Computer Performance Engineering: 9th European Workshop, EPEW 2012, Munich, Germany, July 30, 2012, and 28th UK Workshop, UKPEW 2012, Edinburgh, UK, July 2, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Murinson, B.B.: The Role of Antidepressants in the Treatment of Chronic Pain. In: Deer, T.R., Leong, M.S., and Gordin, V. (eds.) Treatment of Chronic Pain by Medical Approaches: the AMERICAN ACADEMY of PAIN MEDICINE Textbook on Patient Management. pp. 43–50. Springer, New York, NY (2015)

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 Solution Chemistry.

Blog post

Hale, T.: Couples Who Share Housework Equally Have More Sex, Claims Study, https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/couples-who-share-housework-equally-have-more-sex-claims-study/

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: Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Status of Emergency and State and Local Law Enforcement Systems Is Still Unknown. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1999)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Santoso, E.: Intellectual capital in Indonesia: The influence on financial performance of banking industry, (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

Pilon, M.: Rare Medal Sweep for the United States, (2014)

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 Solution Chemistry
Abbreviation	J. Solution Chem.
ISSN (print)	0095-9782
ISSN (online)	1572-8927
Scope	Biochemistry Biophysics Molecular Biology Physical and Theoretical Chemistry