How to format your references using the Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. 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]

Y. Le Maho, Nature and function, Nature 416 (2002) 21.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.A. Seder, A.V. Hill, Vaccines against intracellular infections requiring cellular immunity, Nature 406 (2000) 793–798.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. Levayer, B. Hauert, E. Moreno, Cell mixing induced by myc is required for competitive tissue invasion and destruction, Nature 524 (2015) 476–480.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S.C. Bendall, E.F. Simonds, P. Qiu, E.-A.D. Amir, P.O. Krutzik, R. Finck, R.V. Bruggner, R. Melamed, A. Trejo, O.I. Ornatsky, R.S. Balderas, S.K. Plevritis, K. Sachs, D. Pe’er, S.D. Tanner, G.P. Nolan, Single-cell mass cytometry of differential immune and drug responses across a human hematopoietic continuum, Science 332 (2011) 687–696.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Chadha, L. Kant, Policy-Driven Mobile Ad hoc Network Management, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2007.

An edited book

[1]

D. Hava, Charismatic Leadership in Singapore: Three Extraordinary People, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Y. Waseda, E. Matsubara, K. Shinoda, Reciprocal Lattice and Integrated Intensities of Crystals, in: E. Matsubara, K. Shinoda (Eds.), X-Ray Diffraction Crystallography: Introduction, Examples and Solved Problems, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 169–218.

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 Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Shark Attacks Are So Unlikely, But So Fascinating, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/shark-attacks-are-so-unlikely-so-fascinating/ (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, Transportation Infrastructure: Progress On and Challenges to Central Artery/Tunnel Project’s Costs and Financing, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. McClenahan, The Impact of Media Promulgated Fear on the Psyche: Love Will Prevail, Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 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

[1]

L. Greenhouse, Vote Against Banner Shows Divide on Speech in Schools, New York Times (2007) A18.

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	Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Abbreviation	Prog. Nucl. Magn. Reson. Spectrosc.
ISSN (print)	0079-6565
Scope	Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Spectroscopy Nuclear and High Energy Physics