How to format your references using the Chem Catalysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chem Catalysis. 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

Yamanaka, S. (2009). Elite and stochastic models for induced pluripotent stem cell generation. Nature 460, 49–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

Oh, M., and Mirkin, C.A. (2005). Chemically tailorable colloidal particles from infinite coordination polymers. Nature 438, 651–654.

A journal article with 3 authors

Regenauer-Lieb, K., Yuen, D.A., and Branlund, J. (2001). The initiation of subduction: criticality by addition of water? Science 294, 578–580.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Potts, M., Halperin, D.T., Kirby, D., Swidler, A., Marseille, E., Klausner, J.D., Hearst, N., Wamai, R.G., Kahn, J.G., and Walsh, J. (2008). Public health. Reassessing HIV prevention. Science 320, 749–750.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Geyer, T. (2016). Model Predictive Control of High Power Convertersand Industrial Drives (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd).

An edited book

Li, Y., and Kaiser, G. eds. (2011). Expertise in Mathematics Instruction: An International Perspective (Springer US).

A chapter in an edited book

Shah, R., Eldridge, D., Palombo, E., and Harding, I. (2015). Characterization. In Lipid Nanoparticles: Production, Characterization and Stability SpringerBriefs in Pharmaceutical Science & Drug Development., D. Eldridge, E. Palombo, and I. Harding, eds. (Springer International Publishing), pp. 45–74.

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 Chem Catalysis.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014). Easter Islanders Mixed With Native Americans Centuries Before Europeans Arrived. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/easter-islanders-mixed-native-americans-centuries-europeans-arrived/.

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

Government Accountability Office (2004). Telecommunications: German DTV Transition Differs from U.S. Transition in Many Respects, but Certain Key Challenges Are Similar (U.S. Government Printing Office).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yamada, T. (2008). Comparison of cognitively diagnostic adaptive testing algorithms.

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

Feeney, K. (2006). QUICK BITE/Edison; Sandwich for Five? New York Times, 14NJ24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference ².
This sentence cites two references ^2,4.
This sentence cites four references ^2,4,6,8.

About the journal

Full journal title	Chem Catalysis
ISSN (online)	2667-1093
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