How to format your references using the The Journal of Organic Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Organic 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	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

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Carmeliet, P. Biomedicine. Clotting Factors Build Blood Vessels. Science 2001, 293 (5535), 1602–1604.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Bonduriansky, R.; Brassil, C. E. Senescence: Rapid and Costly Ageing in Wild Male Flies. Nature 2002, 420 (6914), 377.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Hampshire, A.; MacDonald, A.; Owen, A. M. Hypoconnectivity and Hyperfrontality in Retired American Football Players. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2972.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Jardine, A. P.; Dworski, S.; Fouquet, P.; Alexandrowicz, G.; Riley, D. J.; Lee, G. Y. H.; Ellis, J.; Allison, W. Ultrahigh-Resolution Spin-Echo Measurement of Surface Potential Energy Landscapes. Science 2004, 304 (5678), 1790–1793.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Sellars, C. Risk Assessment in People with Learning Disabilities; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2011.

An edited book

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Music and Game: Perspectives on a Popular Alliance; Moormann, P., Ed.; Musik und Medien; Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden: Wiesbaden, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

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Airoldi, E. M.; Blei, D. M.; Fienberg, S. E.; Xing, E. P. Combining Stochastic Block Models and Mixed Membership for Statistical Network Analysis. In Statistical Network Analysis: Models, Issues, and New Directions: ICML 2006 Workshop on Statistical Network Analysis, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, June 29, 2006, Revised Selected Papers; Airoldi, E., Blei, D. M., Fienberg, S. E., Goldenberg, A., Xing, E. P., Zheng, A. X., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007; pp 57–74.

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 The Journal of Organic Chemistry.

Blog post

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Andrew, E. Explainer: microRNA, The Puppet Master Of The Genome. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/explainer-microrna-puppet-master-genome/ (accessed 2018-10-30).

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

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Government Accountability Office. Amtrak Training: Improvements Needed for Employees Who Inspect and Maintain Rail Equipment; RCED-93-68; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Powell, T. J. Saxophone Sonatas: 1980–2010. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 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

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Murphy, M. J. O. Friday File. New York Times. January 23, 2015, p C34.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	The Journal of Organic Chemistry
Abbreviation	J. Org. Chem.
ISSN (print)	0022-3263
ISSN (online)	1520-6904
Scope	Organic Chemistry