How to format your references using the Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society (JBCS). 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

Reimer, P. J. ;Science 2012, 338, 337.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zimmerman, J. B.; Anastas, P. T. ;Science 2015, 347, 1198.

A journal article with 3 authors

Laubach, M.; Wessberg, J.; Nicolelis, M. A. ;Nature 2000, 405, 567.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

He, L.; Wu, X.-S.; Mohan, R.; Wu, L.-G. ;Nature 2006, 444, 102.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Minoli, D. A Networking Approach to Grid Computing; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2004.

An edited book

Translational Research in Audiology, Neurotology, and the Hearing Sciences; Le Prell, C. G.; Lobarinas, E.; Popper, A. N.; Fay, R. R., Eds.; Springer Handbook of Auditory Research; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; Vol. 58.

A chapter in an edited book

Derkach, V.; Hassi, S.; de Snoo, H. In Operator Theory in Inner Product Spaces; Förster, K.-H.; Jonas, P.; Langer, H.; Trunk, C., Eds.; Birkhäuser: Basel, 2007; pp. 51–88.

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 the Brazilian Chemical Society.

Blog post

Andrews, R. No, Cat Poop Parasites Don’t Give You Mental Illnesses https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/no-cat-poop-parasites-mental-illnesses/ (accessed Oct 30, 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

Government Accountability Office Student Athletes: Most Schools Meet Proposed Academic Performance Reporting Requirements; 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

Millar, C. L. Re-specting graffiti: Transgression at play in art, language, and ritual. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute: Carpinteria, CA, 2010.

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

(nyt), S. K. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: More Delays For Kursk. New York Times 2001, A14.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 the Brazilian Chemical Society
Abbreviation	J. Braz. Chem. Soc.
ISSN (print)	0103-5053
ISSN (online)	1678-4790
Scope	General Chemistry