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]

J.L. Heeney, Ebola: Hidden reservoirs, Nature 527 (2015) 453–455.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.A. Cane, P. Molnar, Closing of the Indonesian seaway as a precursor to east African aridification around 3-4 million years ago, Nature 411 (2001) 157–162.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N.W. Palm, R.K. Rosenstein, R. Medzhitov, Allergic host defences, Nature 484 (2012) 465–472.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.R. Guest, T.H. Stievater, G. Chen, E.A. Tabak, B.G. Orr, D.G. Steel, D. Gammon, D.S. Katzer, Near-field coherent spectroscopy and microscopy of a quantum dot system, Science 293 (2001) 2224–2227.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E.J. Stavetski, Managing Hedge Fund Managers, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2009.

An edited book

[1]

K. Tanishita, K. Yamamoto, eds., Vascular Engineering: New Prospects of Vascular Medicine and Biology with a Multidiscipline Approach, 1st ed. 2016, Springer Japan, Tokyo, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M.K. Olorunnimbe, H.L. Viktor, E. Paquet, Intelligent Adaptive Ensembles for Data Stream Mining: A High Return on Investment Approach, in: M. Ceci, C. Loglisci, G. Manco, E. Masciari, Z.W. Ras (Eds.), New Frontiers in Mining Complex Patterns: 4th International Workshop, NFMCP 2015, Held in Conjunction with ECML-PKDD 2015, Porto, Portugal, September 7, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 61–75.

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]

R. Andrews, 90 Megacity Mayors Pledge To Fight Dangerous Climate Change, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/90-megacity-mayors-pledge-fight-damgerous-climate-change/ (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, FAA Budget: Key Issues in Facilities and Equipment and Operations Accounts Need Resolution, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.R. Mullen, Factors Influencing Canadian Power Engineers’ Decision to Pursue Advanced Certification, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 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]

K. Feeney, The Nuclear Option Is Yours, New York Times (2010) NJ13.

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