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]

J. Javanainen, Physics. Bose-Einstein condensates interfere and survive, Science. 307 (2005) 1883–1885.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Surani, J. Tischler, Stem cells: a sporadic super state, Nature. 487 (2012) 43–45.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Savaldi-Goldstein, C. Peto, J. Chory, The epidermis both drives and restricts plant shoot growth, Nature. 446 (2007) 199–202.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. Pál, B. Papp, M.J. Lercher, P. Csermely, S.G. Oliver, L.D. Hurst, Chance and necessity in the evolution of minimal metabolic networks, Nature. 440 (2006) 667–670.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Pease, Optimize Your Greatest Asset-Your People, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

S.-G. Lee, Z. Peng, X. Zhou, Y.-S. Moon, R. Unland, J. Yoo, eds., Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 17th International Conference, DASFAA 2012, Busan, South Korea, April 15-19, 2012, Proceedings, Part I, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Y. Sakakibara, K. Sato, Sequence and Structural Analyses for Functional Non-coding RNAs, in: A. Condon, D. Harel, J.N. Kok, A. Salomaa, E. Winfree (Eds.), Algorithmic Bioprocesses, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 63–79.

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]

K. Hamilton, How The Snake Got Its Extra-Long Body, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-the-snake-got-its-extra-long-body/ (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, Third Party Funding Agreements: No Longer Appropriate for Serving the Handicapped Through the Vocational Rehabilitation Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

P. Wilson, A Case Study of the Efficacy of Middle College on Educational Advancement, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 2015.

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]

J. Barron, Commuters Catch a Tune, and Then the Bus Home, New York Times. (2016) A20.

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

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