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

Sheil, M.: Perspective: on the verge of a new ERA. Nature. 511, S67 (2014)

A journal article with 2 authors

Wolff, E.W., British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK. ewwo@bas.ac.uk: Ocean science. Whither Antarctic sea ice? Science. 302, 1164 (2003)

A journal article with 3 authors

Di Toro, G., Goldsby, D.L., Tullis, T.E.: Friction falls towards zero in quartz rock as slip velocity approaches seismic rates. Nature. 427, 436–439 (2004)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sandhu, A.S., Gagnon, E., Santra, R., Sharma, V., Li, W., Ho, P., Ranitovic, P., Cocke, C.L., Murnane, M.M., Kapteyn, H.C.: Observing the creation of electronic feshbach resonances in soft x-ray-induced O2 dissociation. Science. 322, 1081–1085 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li, R.C.-H.: RF Circuit Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2008)

An edited book

Kasch, F.: Regularity and Substructures of Hom. Birkhäuser, Basel (2009)

A chapter in an edited book

Aiba, S.-I.: Vegetation Zonation and Conifer Dominance Along Latitudinal and Altitudinal Gradients in Humid Regions of the Western Pacific. In: Kudo, G. (ed.) Structure and Function of Mountain Ecosystems in Japan: Biodiversity and Vulnerability to Climate Change. pp. 89–114. Springer Japan, Tokyo (2016)

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

Andrews, R.: Two Faults Beneath California Are Connected In A Destructive Embrace, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/two-faults-beneath-san-francisco-connected-destructve-embrace/

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: Space Station: Inadequate Planning and Design Led to Propulsion Module Project Failure. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2001)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Moeller, R.A.: “No thanks, those are boy books”: A feminist cultural analysis of graphic novels as curricular materials, (2008)

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, K.: Trump Adviser’s $285 Million Exit Pay Questioned as to Possible Goldman Influence, (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