How to format your references using the Vibrational Spectroscopy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Vibrational Spectroscopy. 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]

P. Aldhous, Millennium Dome sees signs of a Wellcome break, Nature. 412 (2001) 258.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E. Post, M.C. Forchhammer, Synchronization of animal population dynamics by large-scale climate, Nature. 420 (2002) 168–171.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Matsumoto, S. Saito, I. Ohmine, Molecular dynamics simulation of the ice nucleation and growth process leading to water freezing, Nature. 416 (2002) 409–413.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Takeda, S. Costa, E. Delamarre, C. Roncal, R. Leite de Oliveira, M.L. Squadrito, V. Finisguerra, S. Deschoemaeker, F. Bruyère, M. Wenes, A. Hamm, J. Serneels, J. Magat, T. Bhattacharyya, A. Anisimov, B.F. Jordan, K. Alitalo, P. Maxwell, B. Gallez, Z.W. Zhuang, Y. Saito, M. Simons, M. De Palma, M. Mazzone, Macrophage skewing by Phd2 haplodeficiency prevents ischaemia by inducing arteriogenesis, Nature. 479 (2011) 122–126.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K. Forsberg, S.Z. Mansdorf, Quick Selection Guide to Chemical Protective Clothing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Y. Chen, ed., Energy Science & Technology in China: A Roadmap to 2050, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. El-Metwally, O.M. Ouda, M. Helmy, Challenges in the Next-Generation Sequencing Field, in: O.M. Ouda, M. Helmy (Eds.), Next Generation Sequencing Technologies and Challenges in Sequence Assembly, Springer, New York, NY, 2014: pp. 45–49.

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 Vibrational Spectroscopy.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Are Your Bacteria Making You Fat?, IFLScience. (2014).

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, Education Paperwork Requirements Are Burdensome: Better Federal Controls Needed, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

P.S. Besson, Affective Organizational Commitment: A Comparative View of the Experience of 5-7 Year Managerial Employees Who Participated in an Employee Identity Network, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2015.

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]

G. Vecsey, Back Home, Still Taking on the World, New York Times. (2013) B8.

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	Vibrational Spectroscopy
Abbreviation	Vib. Spectrosc.
ISSN (print)	0924-2031
Scope	Spectroscopy

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