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

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

1. Dalton R. Older women scientists fight USGS over layoffs. US Geological Survey. Nature. 2000;404:219.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Polyak K, Marusyk A. Cancer: Clonal cooperation. Nature. 2014;508:52–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. McElwain JC, Wagner PJ, Hesselbo SP. Fossil plant relative abundances indicate sudden loss of Late Triassic biodiversity in East Greenland. Science. 2009;324:1554–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wheeler TM, Sobczak K, Lueck JD, Osborne RJ, Lin X, Dirksen RT, et al. Reversal of RNA dominance by displacement of protein sequestered on triplet repeat RNA. Science. 2009;325:336–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bays DH. A New History of Christianity in China. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

1. Jiang H, Ding W, Ali M, Wu X, editors. Advanced Research in Applied Artificial Intelligence: 25th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2012, Dalian, China, June 9-12, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Chan G, Neel BG. Role of PTPN11 (SHP2) in Cancer. In: Neel BG, Tonks NK, editors. Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases in Cancer. New York, NY: Springer; 2016. p. 115–43.

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 Systems Chemistry.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Hot Rocks Could Have Incubated The Earliest Life on Earth. IFLScience. 2015. Accessed 30 Oct 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Title 6--NAD Electronic Signature. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Ward S. Historiography, prophecy, and literature: “Divina retribución” and its underlying ideological agenda. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University; 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

1. Williams J. Working Toward a Sunny Version of ‘Jurassic Park.’ New York Times. 2017;:C4.

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 Systems Chemistry
ISSN (print)	1759-2208
Scope