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 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

[1]

N.J. Kuhn, Learn lateral thinking first and specialize later, Nature 404 (2000) 542.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P.J. Horn, C.L. Peterson, Molecular biology. Chromatin higher order folding--wrapping up transcription, Science 297 (2002) 1824–1827.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Ben-Yehuda, D.Z. Rudner, R. Losick, RacA, a bacterial protein that anchors chromosomes to the cell poles, Science 299 (2003) 532–536.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Feng, M. Shuda, Y. Chang, P.S. Moore, Clonal integration of a polyomavirus in human Merkel cell carcinoma, Science 319 (2008) 1096–1100.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Sexton, Trump University Branding 101, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

S. Carpin, I. Noda, E. Pagello, M. Reggiani, O. von Stryk, eds., Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots: First International Conference, SIMPAR 2008 Venice, Italy, November 3-6, 2008. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T.F. Sonnemann, E.H. Malatesta, C.L. Hofman, Applying UAS Photogrammetry to Analyze Spatial Patterns of Indigenous Settlement Sites in the Northern Dominican Republic, in: M. Forte, S. Campana (Eds.), Digital Methods and Remote Sensing in Archaeology: Archaeology in the Age of Sensing, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 71–87.

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, New Mapping Effort To Help Battle Lyme Disease, 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, FCC: Installment Payment Financing for Personal Communications Services Licensees, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L.W. Bristow, There is an old woman: The final stage of individuation, Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2009.

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]

M. Kolomatsky, Cyclists: Where to Live in New York, New York Times (2017) RE2.

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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