How to format your references using the Angewandte Chemie International Edition citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

S. G. Rhee, “Cell signaling. H2O2, a necessary evil for cell signaling” Science 2006, 312, 1882–1883.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. C. Gallo, L. Montagnier, “Historical essay. Prospects for the future” Science 2002, 298, 1730–1731.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

F. C. Santos, M. D. Santos, J. M. Pacheco, “Social diversity promotes the emergence of cooperation in public goods games” Nature 2008, 454, 213–216.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Zhang, D. Tian, R. Lin, G. Zhou, G. Peng, M. Su, “Phase-contrast X-ray CT imaging of esophagus and esophageal carcinoma” Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5332.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. J. Zwecher, Retirement Portfolios Workbook, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

A. K. Manrai, H. L. Meadow, Eds. , Global Perspectives in Marketing for the 21st Century: Proceedings of the 1999 World Marketing Congress, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Gozdawa-Gołębiowski in Investigations in Teaching and Learning Languages: Studies in Honour of Hanna Komorowska (Eds.: D. Gabryś-Barker, E. Piechurska-Kuciel, J. Zybert), Springer International Publishing, Heidelberg, 2013, pp. 35–50.

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 Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, “China Plans To Build 20 Floating Nuclear Power Plants In The South China Sea,” can be found under https://www.iflscience.com/environment/china-plans-build-20-floating-nuclear-power-plants-south-china-sea/(accessed 30 October 2018), 2016.

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, Telecommunications: Comprehensive Review of U.S. Spectrum Management with Broad Stakeholder Involvement Is Needed, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. C. Delaney, Undergraduate Social Work Students’ Perceptions Regarding Hospice and End-of-Life Care, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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]

L. Goodstein, M. D. Shear New York Times 2017, A22.

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	Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Abbreviation	Angew. Chem. Int. Ed Engl.
ISSN (print)	1433-7851
ISSN (online)	1521-3773
Scope	Catalysis General Chemistry