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]

M.B. Sporn, Perspective: The big C - for Chemoprevention, Nature 471 (2011) S10-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K. Padian, K.P. Dial, Origin of flight: Could “four-winged” dinosaurs fly?, Nature 438 (2005) E3; discussion E3-4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. Saran, V. Stolojan, R.J. Curry, Ultrahigh performance C60 nanorod large area flexible photoconductor devices via ultralow organic and inorganic photodoping, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5041.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Goedert, C. Lécuyer, R. Amiot, F. Arnaud-Godet, X. Wang, L. Cui, G. Cuny, G. Douay, F. Fourel, G. Panczer, L. Simon, J.-S. Steyer, M. Zhu, Euryhaline ecology of early tetrapods revealed by stable isotopes, Nature 558 (2018) 68–72.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W. Schumann, Dynamics of the Bacterial Chromosome, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

R.A. Cruciani, H. Knotkova, eds., Handbook of Methadone Prescribing and Buprenorphine Therapy, Springer, New York, NY, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C.K. Volkmann, K.O. Tokarski, M. Grünhagen, Organization and Personnel, in: K.O. Tokarski, M. Grünhagen (Eds.), Entrepreneurship in a European Perspective: Concepts for the Creation and Growth of New Ventures, Gabler, Wiesbaden, 2010: pp. 243–281.

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]

K. Hamilton, How We Discovered That A Common Antibiotic May Be Able To Treat Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-we-discovered-that-a-common-antibiotic-may-be-able-to-treat-post-traumatic-stress-disorder/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites: Technical Problems, Cost Increases, and Schedule Delays Trigger Need for Difficult Trade-off Decisions, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.D. Lake, Hepatic stress response mechanisms in progressive human nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 2013.

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]

J. Wagner, Who’s at Second, And Now Third? It’s the Catcher, New York Times (2017) B7.

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
Scope