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

Wadsworth, P. Cell biology. Persistence pays. Science 300, 1675–1677 (2003).

A journal article with 2 authors

Bonnet, R.-M. & Bleeker, J. A. M. Astrophysics. A dark age for space astronomy? Science 333, 161–162 (2011).

A journal article with 3 authors

Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, M., Sakbodin, M. & Wang, Z. Regenerative adsorption and removal of H2S from hot fuel gas streams by rare earth oxides. Science 312, 1508–1510 (2006).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Sardanyés, J., Simó, C., Martínez, R., Solé, R. V. & Elena, S. F. Variability in mutational fitness effects prevents full lethal transitions in large quasispecies populations. Sci. Rep. 4, 4625 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wilson, G. P. Managing to the New Regulatory Reality. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011).

An edited book

Martín-Sánchez, J. M. ADEX Optimized Adaptive Controllers and Systems: From Research to Industrial Practice. (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015).

A chapter in an edited book

Matanović, D., Čikeš, M. & Moslavac, B. Chemical Consolidation. in Sand Control in Well Construction and Operation (eds. Cikes, M. & Moslavac, B.) 85–94 (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012).

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

Davis, J. New Laser Technology Detects Brain Tumors During Surgery. IFLScience (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. Representational Funds: State Department Expenditures at Selected Posts. (1987).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fischer, B. C. Toward Understanding Resonant Volcanic Seismic Signals: Modelling Bubbly Flow in Magma. (University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 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

Zucchino, D. & Solomon, B. C. Newly Freed From ISIS but Stuck Without Water, Neighbors Find a Way. New York Times A4 (2017).

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