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

Mango SE (2011) Ageing: generations of longevity. Nature 479:302–303

A journal article with 2 authors

O’Neil DD, Gillikin DP (2014) Do freshwater mussel shells record road-salt pollution? Sci Rep 4:7168

A journal article with 3 authors

Overby CL, Hripcsak G, Shen Y (2014) Estimating heritability of drug-induced liver injury from common variants and implications for future study designs. Sci Rep 4:5762

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wijesinghe D, Arachchige MCM, Lu A, et al (2013) pH dependent transfer of nano-pores into membrane of cancer cells to induce apoptosis. Sci Rep 3:3560

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lamattina JL (2012) Devalued and Distrusted. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ibarra OH, Kari L, Kopecki S (2014) Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation: 13th International Conference, UCNC 2014, London, ON, Canada, July 14-18, 2014, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Onken R, Schulte A (2010) Dual-Mode Cognitive Automation in Work Systems. In: Schulte A (ed) System-Ergonomic Design of Cognitive Automation: Dual-Mode Cognitive Design of Vehicle Guidance and Control Work Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 79–127

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

Hale T (2016) Stephen Hawking Has Another Message For The Rest Of Humanity. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/stephen-hawking-has-another-message-for-the-rest-of-humanity/. 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) Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness Improving But Much Work Remains to Ensure Delivery of Critical Services. 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

Garbarini L (2017) Comparison of the Completion Pathways of Four Categories of Doctoral Students from a Midwestern University. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood 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

Williams J (2017) Going After Big Prey. New York Times BR6

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