How to format your references using the Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Smaglik P (2003) A team effort. Nature 424:471

A journal article with 2 authors

van Doorn GS, Kirkpatrick M (2007) Turnover of sex chromosomes induced by sexual conflict. Nature 449:909–912

A journal article with 3 authors

Fotso H, Mikelsons K, Freericks JK (2014) Thermalization of field driven quantum systems. Sci Rep 4:4699

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Li H-J, Sun J-Z, Zhang Q-L, et al (2014) Neuroanatomical differences between men and women in help-seeking coping strategy. Sci Rep 4:5700

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

El-Reedy MA (2011) Construction Management for Industrial Projects. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Yuille AL, Zhu S-C, Cremers D, Wang Y (2007) Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 6th International Conference, EMMCVPR 2007, Ezhou, China, August 27-29, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Hardin CS, Taylor AD (2013) The Denumerable Setting: One-Way Visibility. In: Taylor AD (ed) The Mathematics of Coordinated Inference: A Study of Generalized Hat Problems. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 29–47

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 Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Where Does The Smell of Old Books Come From? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/where-does-smell-old-books-come/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1988) Aircraft Development: The Advanced Tactical Fighter’s Costs, Schedule, and Performance Goals. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sampson R (2010) The effects of foster care on children: A comparison of 18th century through modern day foster care practices. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Greenhouse L (2007) Adjudging a Moral Harm To Women From Abortions. New York Times 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	Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis
Abbreviation	React. Kinet. Mech. Catal.
ISSN (print)	1878-5190
ISSN (online)	1878-5204
Scope	Catalysis Physical and Theoretical Chemistry