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

Stafford, N. Angling saxons. Nature 441, 931 (2006).

A journal article with 2 authors

Cho, S. W. & Chang, H. Y. Genomics: CRISPR engineering turns on genes. Nature 517, 560–562 (2015).

A journal article with 3 authors

Song, H., Stevens, C. F. & Gage, F. H. Astroglia induce neurogenesis from adult neural stem cells. Nature 417, 39–44 (2002).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Kettle, C. J. et al. Mass fruiting in Borneo: a missed opportunity. Science 330, 584 (2010).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Laplante, P. A. & Ovaska, S. J. Real-Time Systems Design and Analysis. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011).

An edited book

Trust and Trustworthy Computing: 6th International Conference, TRUST 2013, London, UK, June 17-19, 2013. Proceedings. vol. 7904 (Springer, 2013).

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, P., He, Y. & Huang, L. Approaching the Optimal Schedule for Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks. in Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications: 5th International Conference, WASA 2010, Beijing, China, August 15-17, 2010. Proceedings (eds. Pandurangan, G., Anil Kumar, V. S., Ming, G., Liu, Y. & Li, Y.) 26–35 (Springer, 2010).

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. Do 3D Films Make you Dizzy – or is it Just Your Imagination? IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/technology/do-3d-films-make-you-dizzy-or-it-just-your-imagination/ (2015).

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. Implications of Joint NASA/DOD Participation in Space Shuttle Operations. (1983).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Vatankhah, I. Purification of Industrial Grade Urea for diesel exhaust pollution reduction. (California State University, Long Beach, 2017).

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

Kelly, S. R. Bonjour, America! New York Times A23 (2013).

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