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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Prantzos, N. Cosmology: Rare Isotopic Insight into the Universe. Nature 2016, 529 (7584), 33–34.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Sheffield, M. E. J.; Dombeck, D. A. Calcium Transient Prevalence across the Dendritic Arbour Predicts Place Field Properties. Nature 2015, 517 (7533), 200–204.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Lavine, M. S.; Voss, D.; Coontz, R. A Robotic Future. Introduction to Special Issue. Science 2007, 318 (5853), 1083.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Reader, J. S.; Ordoukhanian, P. T.; Kim, J.-G.; de Crécy-Lagard, V.; Hwang, I.; Farrand, S.; Schimmel, P. Major Biocontrol of Plant Tumors Targets TRNA Synthetase. Science 2005, 309 (5740), 1533.

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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Khatib, T.; Elmenreich, W. Modeling of Photovoltaic Systems Using MATLAB ®; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

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Gershon, E. Advanced Topics in Control and Estimation of State-Multiplicative Noisy Systems; Shaked, U., Ed.; Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences; Springer: London, 2013; Vol. 439.

A chapter in an edited book

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Kreutzer, J. Cardiac Catheterization. In Critical Care of Children with Heart Disease: Basic Medical and Surgical Concepts; Munoz, R., Morell, V., Cruz, E., Vetterly, C., Eds.; Springer: London, 2010; pp 37–55.

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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Davis, J. Researchers Find That Prawns Could Help Protect Against Bilharzia. IFLScience.

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Strong Leadership and Effective Partnerships Needed to Mitigate Risks; T-AIMD-98-276; 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

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Salinsky, J. L. Local Disaster Preparedness for the Disabled Population: Are We Ready? Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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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Kelly, C. Linking History and Fortunes of a City and a Team. New York Times. October 14, 2012, p A29B.

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