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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Sulfur 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

Mellman I. Setting logical priorities. Nature. 2001;410:1026.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Diamond J, Bellwood P. Farmers and their languages: the first expansions. Science. 2003;300:597–603.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Catling DC, Zahnle KJ, McKay C. Biogenic methane, hydrogen escape, and the irreversible oxidation of early Earth. Science. 2001;293:839–843.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Bond DR, Holmes DE, Tender LM, et al. Electrode-reducing microorganisms that harvest energy from marine sediments. Science. 2002;295:483–485.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kirwan MJ. Handbook of Paper and Paperboard Packaging Technology. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Sadewasser S, Glatzel T, editors. Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy: Measuring and Compensating Electrostatic Forces. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kim H-K, Yang H-S, Lee RY. A Study on Frameworks of Component Integration for Web Applications. In: Dosch W, Lee RY, Wu C, editors. Software Engineering Research and Applications: Second International Conference, SERA 2004, Los Angeles, CA, USA, MAY 5-7, 2004, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 58–70.

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 Sulfur Chemistry.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K. How To Cut Through When Talking To Anti-Vaxxers And Anti-Fluoriders. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005. Report No.: GAO-06-199R. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

McCallister K. I Didn’t Mean to Show the Dirt [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 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

[1]

Higgins A. Putin Butts In to Claim There Were No Secrets, And Says He’ll Prove It. New York Times. 2017 May 17;A16.

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 Sulfur Chemistry
Abbreviation	J. Sulphur Chem.
ISSN (print)	1741-5993
ISSN (online)	1741-6000
Scope	General Chemistry

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