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

Bowles S (2009) Did warfare among ancestral hunter-gatherers affect the evolution of human social behaviors? Science 324:1293–1298

A journal article with 2 authors

Rowan L, Coontz R (2002) Great balls of fire. Star formation: a Web supplement. Science 295:63

A journal article with 3 authors

Hattori Y, Tomonaga M, Matsuzawa T (2013) Spontaneous synchronized tapping to an auditory rhythm in a chimpanzee. Sci Rep 3:1566

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Brierley CM, Fedorov AV, Liu Z, et al (2009) Greatly expanded tropical warm pool and weakened Hadley circulation in the early Pliocene. Science 323:1714–1718

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mascia L (2011) Polymers in Industry from A-Z. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Rauscher RC (2014) Brooklyn’s Bushwick - Urban Renewal in New York, USA: Community, Planning and Sustainable Environments. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Madureira PA (2015) Tumour Angiogenesis. In: de Mello RA, Tavares Á, Mountzios G (eds) International Manual of Oncology Practice: (iMOP) - Principles of Medical Oncology. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 47–62

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 (2015) Survival Of Dust Disks Near Galactic Center A Mystery. 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 (1998) Environmental Protection: EPA’s Science and Technology Funds. 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

Parker HA (2017) Virtual Mate Poaching: A study of the tactics used to poach a potential mate on Social Networking Sites. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Feeney K (2008) Sophisticated Takeout. New York Times NJ16

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

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