How to format your references using the Organic Chemistry Frontiers citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 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

R. L. Edwards, Science, 2010, 327, 790–791.

A journal article with 2 authors

C. T. Bauch and A. P. Galvani, Science, 2013, 342, 47–49.

A journal article with 3 authors

Y. Okabe, T. Sano and S. Nagata, Nature, 2009, 460, 520–524.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

H. Ito, R. Yamada, A. Tamura, S. Arai, K. Horie and T. Hokada, Sci. Rep., 2013, 3, 1306.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

J.-C. Valière, Acoustic Particle Velocity Measurements Using Lasers, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

I. J. H. Duncan and P. Hawkins, Eds., The Welfare of Domestic Fowl and Other Captive Birds, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2010, vol. 9.

A chapter in an edited book

B. Davis, A. A. Iqbal, A. Funk, V. Tablan, K. Bontcheva, H. Cunningham and S. Handschuh, in The Semantic Web - ISWC 2008: 7th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 26-30, 2008. Proceedings, eds. A. Sheth, S. Staab, M. Dean, M. Paolucci, D. Maynard, T. Finin and K. Thirunarayan, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008, pp. 50–65.

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 Organic Chemistry Frontiers.

Blog post

E. Andrew, Impacts, Extinctions And Climate In The Search For Life Elsewhere, (accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office, FAA Computer Security: Actions Needed to Address Critical Weaknesses That Jeopardize Aviation Operations, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

K. M. Mayfield, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 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

J. Leland, New York Times, 2016, A1.

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	Organic Chemistry Frontiers
Abbreviation	Org. Chem. Front.
ISSN (online)	2052-4129
Scope	Organic Chemistry