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

Pillarisetty R (2011) Academic and industry research progress in germanium nanodevices. Nature 479:324–328

A journal article with 2 authors

Ciufolini I, Pavlis EC (2004) A confirmation of the general relativistic prediction of the Lense-Thirring effect. Nature 431:958–960

A journal article with 3 authors

Aitken CM, Jones DM, Larter SR (2004) Anaerobic hydrocarbon biodegradation in deep subsurface oil reservoirs. Nature 431:291–294

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Brunthaler A, Reid MJ, Falcke H, et al (2005) The geometric distance and proper motion of the Triangulum Galaxy (M33). Science 307:1440–1443

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gray KA, Paschkewitz JJ (2016) Next Generation HALT and HASS. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Yoo K-H (2013) Persuasive Recommender Systems: Conceptual Background and Implications. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Surh Y-J, Chun K-S (2007) CANCER CHEMOPREVENTIVE EFFECTS OF CURCUMIN. In: Aggarwal BB, Surh Y-J, Shishodia S (eds) The Molecular Targets and Therapeutic Uses of Curcumin in Health and Disease. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 149–172

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

Andrew E (2015) The Little-Known History Of Secrecy And Censorship In Wake Of Atomic Bombings. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/little-known-history-secrecy-and-censorship-wake-atomic-bombings/. 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 (1999) Federal Communications Commission: Review of the Commission’s Regulations Governing Attribution Ownership Rule. 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

Quiros PQ (2014) SNR estimation and jamming detection techniques using wavelets. 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

St. John Kelly E (1997) With Historic Brownstone Gone, Is Development at Hand? New York Times 1410

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