How to format your references using the Tetrahedron citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Tetrahedron. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

M. Büttiker, Physics. Edge-state physics without magnetic fields, Science 325 (2009) 278–279.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.L. Niehoff, R. Rhodes, Ideas about the development of violent behavior, Science 290 (2000) 1093c–5c.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.C. Hayward, D.A. Saville, I.A. Aksay, Electrophoretic assembly of colloidal crystals with optically tunable micropatterns, Nature 404 (2000) 56–59.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K. Kuriyama, M. Honma, T. Yoshiike, Y. Kim, Memory suppression trades prolonged fear and sleep-dependent fear plasticity for the avoidance of current fear, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2227.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S.Y. Yan, Computational Number Theory and Modern Cryptography, John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd., Fusionopolis Walk, Singapore, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

C. Ciliberto, I numeri nel cuore, Springer, Milano, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Y. Nagashima, N. Kunihiro, Faster Algorithm for Solving Hard Knapsacks for Moderate Message Length, in: W. Susilo, Y. Mu, J. Seberry (Eds.), Information Security and Privacy: 17th Australasian Conference, ACISP 2012, Wollongong, NSW, Australia, July 9-11, 2012. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 43–56.

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 Tetrahedron.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Great White Shark Pops Up To Say Hello, IFLScience (2015).

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, Federal Research: NASA Should Better Inform Researchers about How to Appeal Dissemination Decisions, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T. Truong, Microfluidics-based system for high-throughput analysis of nitrite in harbor water, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

K. Crow, For Homeless Families, A Tiring Trek to School, New York Times (2003) 145.

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	Tetrahedron
ISSN (print)	0040-4020
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