How to format your references using the Results in Chemistry citation style

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

[1]

N. Gingrich, SCIENCE PRIORITIES: An Opportunities-Based Science Budget, Science 290 (2000) 1303.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

V. Schramke, R. Allshire, Hairpin RNAs and retrotransposon LTRs effect RNAi and chromatin-based gene silencing, Science 301 (2003) 1069–1074.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Lee, A.A. Abdeen, K.A. Kilian, Rewiring mesenchymal stem cell lineage specification by switching the biophysical microenvironment, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5188.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S.S. Huppert, A. Le, E.H. Schroeter, J.S. Mumm, M.T. Saxena, L.A. Milner, R. Kopan, Embryonic lethality in mice homozygous for a processing-deficient allele of Notch1, Nature 405 (2000) 966–970.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W.B. Rouse, Universities as Complex Enterprises, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

I. Cleland, L. Guerrero, J. Bravo, eds., Ambient Assisted Living. ICT-based Solutions in Real Life Situations: 7th International Work-Conference, IWAAL 2015, Puerto Varas, Chile, December 1-4, 2015, Proceedings, 1st ed. 2015, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Bakir, G. Chesler, M. de la Torriente, Using Core Motion to Save Motion Data, in: G. Chesler, M. de la Torriente (Eds.), Program the Internet of Things with Swift for IOS, Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2016: pp. 99–117.

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 Results in Chemistry.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, New Aluminum Battery Could Recharge Your Phone In Just One Minute, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-aluminum-battery-charges-minute/ (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, Polar Weather Satellites: NOAA Identified Ways to Mitigate Data Gaps, but Contingency Plans and Schedules Require Further Attention, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Adams, A study of childhood eating habits in the United States and their association with race and gender, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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]

H. Cotter, A Pooh-Bah Who Painted With Words, New York Times (2017) C13.

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	Results in Chemistry
ISSN (print)	2211-7156
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