How to format your references using the Microchemical Journal citation style

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

T. Kealey, More is less. Economists and governments lag decades behind Derek Price’s thinking, Nature 405 (2000) 279.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N. Lehner, J.C. Howk, A reservoir of ionized gas in the galactic halo to sustain star formation in the Milky Way, Science 334 (2011) 955–958.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.T. Hren, M.M. Tice, C.P. Chamberlain, Oxygen and hydrogen isotope evidence for a temperate climate 3.42 billion years ago, Nature 462 (2009) 205–208.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Guttman, J. Donaghey, B.W. Carey, M. Garber, J.K. Grenier, G. Munson, G. Young, A.B. Lucas, R. Ach, L. Bruhn, X. Yang, I. Amit, A. Meissner, A. Regev, J.L. Rinn, D.E. Root, E.S. Lander, lincRNAs act in the circuitry controlling pluripotency and differentiation, Nature 477 (2011) 295–300.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Hecht, Understanding Lasers, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

J.-P. Anker, B. Orsted, eds., Lie Theory: Unitary Representations and Compactifications of Symmetric Spaces, Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V. Conti, D. Perconti, S. Romano, G. Tona, S. Vitabile, S. Gaglio, F. Sorbello, Fast Fingerprints Classification Only Using the Directional Image, in: B. Apolloni, R.J. Howlett, L. Jain (Eds.), Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 11th International Conference, KES 2007, XVII Italian Workshop on Neural Networks, Vietri Sul Mare, Italy, September 12-14, 2007. Proceedings, Part I, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007: pp. 34–41.

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 Microchemical Journal.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, Losing Control: The Dangers Of Killer Robots, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/losing-control-the-dangers-of-killer-robots/ (accessed October 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Hispanic Dropouts and Federal Programs, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B.H. Weisblatt, The numinous on Russian soil: A depth psychological interpretation of religious experience in “The Brothers Karamazov,” Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 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

[1]

C. Kelly, Scent Notes: The Citrus Aroma of the Season, New York Times (2016) ST3.

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	Microchemical Journal
Abbreviation	Microchem. J.
ISSN (print)	0026-265X
Scope	Analytical Chemistry Spectroscopy