How to format your references using the Structural Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Structural 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

Donnenberg MS (2000) Pathogenic strategies of enteric bacteria. Nature 406:768–774

A journal article with 2 authors

Yu XM, Luo L (2012) Neuroscience. dSarm-ing axon degeneration. Science 337:418–419

A journal article with 3 authors

Falkovich G, Fouxon A, Stepanov MG (2002) Acceleration of rain initiation by cloud turbulence. Nature 419:151–154

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mustard JF, Poulet F, Gendrin A, et al (2005) Olivine and pyroxene diversity in the crust of Mars. Science 307:1594–1597

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Knudsen S (2005) A Biologist’s Guide to Analysis of DNA Microarray Data. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Coventry BJ (2014) Peripheral, Head and Neck Surgery. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Bokalič M, Topič M (2015) SPICE Model and Simulations. In: Topič M (ed) Spatially Resolved Characterization in Thin-Film Photovoltaics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 41–51

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 Structural Chemistry.

Blog post

Luntz S (2014) Mysterious Disease Causes Sea Stars To Disintegrate. In: IFLScience. 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 (1993) Superfund: EPA Needs to Better Focus Cleanup Technology Development. 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

Bao J (2010) Design enhancements in repetitive and interative learning control. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University

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

Crow K (2000) Youngest of Clarks Joins Olympic Family. New York Times D4

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	Structural Chemistry
Abbreviation	Struct. Chem.
ISSN (print)	1040-0400
ISSN (online)	1572-9001
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics