How to format your references using the Nature Chemistry citation style

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

Raguso, R. A. Plant science. The ‘invisible hand’ of floral chemistry. Science 321, 1163–1164 (2008).

A journal article with 2 authors

Martinez, L. M. & Angell, C. A. A thermodynamic connection to the fragility of glass-forming liquids. Nature 410, 663–667 (2001).

A journal article with 3 authors

Laepple, T., Werner, M. & Lohmann, G. Synchronicity of Antarctic temperatures and local solar insolation on orbital timescales. Nature 471, 91–94 (2011).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Nakamura, F. et al. Electric-field-induced metal maintained by current of the Mott insulator Ca2RuO4. Sci. Rep. 3, 2536 (2013).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adamczyk, B. Foundations of Electromagnetic Compatibility. (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2017).

An edited book

Politics and Legitimacy in Post-Soviet Eurasia. (Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016).

A chapter in an edited book

Michel, R. P. & Berry, G. J. Heart Transplantation. in Pathology of Transplantation: A Practical Diagnostic Approach (eds. Michel, R. P. & Berry, G. J.) 81–119 (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016).

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 Nature Chemistry.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Bowling Balls Teach Principles of Physics With Pendulum Wave. IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/physics/bowling-balls-teach-principles-physics-pendulum-wave/ (2014).

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. Mass Transit Grants: Noncompliance and Misspent Funds by Two Grantees in UMTA’s New York Region. (1992).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Xiao, S. Effects of adsorbates on the electronic properties of graphene. (University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 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

Crow, K. Making Sure Food Is as Italian As Caruso. New York Times 145 (2003).

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	Nature Chemistry
Abbreviation	Nat. Chem.
ISSN (print)	1755-4330
ISSN (online)	1755-4349
Scope	General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry