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

Paz, J.P.: Computer science. Randomness in quantum computation. Science. 302, 2076–2077 (2003)

A journal article with 2 authors

Myers, M.G., Jr, Olson, D.P.: Central nervous system control of metabolism. Nature. 491, 357–363 (2012)

A journal article with 3 authors

Spiegelhalter, D., Pearson, M., Short, I.: Visualizing uncertainty about the future. Science. 333, 1393–1400 (2011)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mandel, M.J., Wollenberg, M.S., Stabb, E.V., Visick, K.L., Ruby, E.G.: A single regulatory gene is sufficient to alter bacterial host range. Nature. 458, 215–218 (2009)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yang, J.: Six-Membered Transition States in Organic Synthesis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2007)

An edited book

Kroll, N., Fassbender, J.K. eds: MEGAFLOW - Numerical Flow Simulation for Aircraft Design: Results of the second phase of the German CFD initiative MEGAFLOW, presented during its closing symposium at DLR, Braunschweig, Germany, December 10 and 11, 2002. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2005)

A chapter in an edited book

Levin, E.D., Hall, B.J., Rezvani, A.H.: Heterogeneity Across Brain Regions and Neurotransmitter Interactions with Nicotinic Effects on Memory Function. In: Balfour, D.J.K. and Munafò, M.R. (eds.) The Neurobiology and Genetics of Nicotine and Tobacco. pp. 87–101. Springer International Publishing, Cham (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.: Neil deGrasse Explains How Batman Could Defeat Superman

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: Implementation of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1989)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sanghvi, A.M.: Characterization of algal biomeal for applications in food, (2009)

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

Leland, J.: Staying ‘in the ’Hood, Up to No Good’, (2017)

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