How to format your references using the Macromolecules citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Macromolecules. 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

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Morgan, B. Research Impact: Income for Outcome. Nature 2014, 511 (7510), S72-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

(1)

Parisien, M.; Major, F. The MC-Fold and MC-Sym Pipeline Infers RNA Structure from Sequence Data. Nature 2008, 452 (7183), 51–55.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Naya, Y.; Yoshida, M.; Miyashita, Y. Backward Spreading of Memory-Retrieval Signal in the Primate Temporal Cortex. Science 2001, 291 (5504), 661–664.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Tatar, M.; Kopelman, A.; Epstein, D.; Tu, M. P.; Yin, C. M.; Garofalo, R. S. A Mutant Drosophila Insulin Receptor Homolog That Extends Life-Span and Impairs Neuroendocrine Function. Science 2001, 292 (5514), 107–110.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

(1)

Moeller, R. IT Audit, Control, and Security; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

(1)

Cyber Situational Awareness: Issues and Research; Jajodia, S., Liu, P., Swarup, V., Wang, C., Eds.; Advances in Information Security; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2010; Vol. 46.

A chapter in an edited book

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Piepkorn, M. W.; Barnhill, R. L. Common Acquired and Atypical/Dysplastic Melanocytic Nevi. In Pathology of Melanocytic Nevi and Melanoma; Barnhill, R. L., Piepkorn, M. W., Busam, K. J., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014; pp 87–153.

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 Macromolecules.

Blog post

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Andrew, D. Scientific Theories Aren’t Mere Conjecture – to Survive They Must Work. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/scientific-theories-arent-mere-conjecture-to-survive-they-must-work/ (accessed 2018-10-30).

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

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Government Accountability Office. Student Enrollment and Attendance Reports in the Boston Public School System Are Substantially Accurate; HRD-76-146; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Sherman, C. P. The Effect of Head and Heart on Municipal Employee Retention. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 2001.

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)

Gorman, J. The Self-Aware Dog. New York Times. September 22, 2017, p D3.

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	Macromolecules
Abbreviation	Macromolecules
ISSN (print)	0024-9297
ISSN (online)	1520-5835
Scope	Inorganic Chemistry Organic Chemistry Materials Chemistry Polymers and Plastics