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. McCarty M. Discovering genes are made of DNA. Nature. 2003;421:406.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Keefer DK, Larsen MC. Geology. Assessing landslide hazards. Science. 2007;316:1136–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Dornelas M, Connolly SR, Hughes TP. Coral reef diversity refutes the neutral theory of biodiversity. Nature. 2006;440:80–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Mucida D, Park Y, Kim G, Turovskaya O, Scott I, Kronenberg M, et al. Reciprocal TH17 and regulatory T cell differentiation mediated by retinoic acid. Science. 2007;317:256–60.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Center for Chemical Process Safety, American Industrial Hygiene Association. Continuous Monitoring for Hazardous Material Releases. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

1. Corchado E, Kurzyński M, Woźniak M, editors. Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems: 6th International Conference, HAIS 2011, Wroclaw, Poland, May 23-25, 2011, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Thomas EM, Temko A, Lightbody G, Marnane WP, Boylan GB. Advances in Automated Neonatal Seizure Detection. In: Ruano AE, Várkonyi-Kóczy AR, editors. New Advances in Intelligent Signal Processing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 93–113.

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. Fang J. Early Exposure To Pets, Dirt & Germs Are Good For Babies. IFLScience. 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/early-exposure-pets-dirt-germs-are-good-babies/. 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. Space Data: NASA’s Future Data Volumes Create Formidable Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Salinsky JL. Local disaster preparedness for the disabled population: Are we ready? Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

1. Villarosa L. Done Right, Colonoscopy Takes Time, Study Finds. New York Times. 2006;:F5.

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