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]

S.W. Running, Climate change. Ecosystem disturbance, carbon, and climate, Science. 321 (2008) 652–653.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.T. Leek, R.D. Peng, Statistics. What is the question?, Science. 347 (2015) 1314–1315.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Kim, N.-H. Xuong, S.S. Taylor, Crystal structure of a complex between the catalytic and regulatory (RIalpha) subunits of PKA, Science. 307 (2005) 690–696.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H.P.M. Melo, A.A. Moreira, É. Batista, H.A. Makse, J.S. Andrade, Statistical signs of social influence on suicides, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6239.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Guzik, Essentials for Occupational Health Nursing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., West Sussex, UK, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

P. O’Donovan, ed., Complications in Gynecological Surgery, Springer, London, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.M.K. Roelofsen, U. Lindemann, An Approach Towards Planning Development Processes According to the Design Situation, in: P. Heisig, P.J. Clarkson, S. Vajna (Eds.), Modelling and Management of Engineering Processes, Springer, London, 2010: pp. 41–52.

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]

S. Luntz, Coral Reefs Need Cleaning Too, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Seclusions and Restraints: Selected Cases of Death and Abuse at Public and Private Schools and Treatment Centers, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Y. Yoon, Nano-tribology of discrete track recording media, Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, 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

[1]

S.K. (nyt), World Briefing | Europe: Belarus: Protesters Sentenced, New York Times. (2002) A6.

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

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