How to format your references using the Chem citation style

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

Malartre, E. (2000). Words, words, words. Nature 406, 833.

A journal article with 2 authors

Higgins, S.I., and Scheiter, S. (2012). Atmospheric CO2 forces abrupt vegetation shifts locally, but not globally. Nature 488, 209–212.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, Y., Emerson, J.J., and Martin, T.M. (2005). Evolutionary genomics: codon volatility does not detect selection. Nature 433, E6-7; discussion E7-8.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Holcomb, M., Venn, A.A., Tambutté, E., Tambutté, S., Allemand, D., Trotter, J., and McCulloch, M. (2014). Coral calcifying fluid pH dictates response to ocean acidification. Sci. Rep. 4, 5207.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kent, J. (2017). ADA in Details (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Aybek, C.M., Huinink, J., and Muttarak, R. eds. (2015). Spatial Mobility, Migration, and Living Arrangements (Springer International Publishing).

A chapter in an edited book

Canard, S., Ferreira, L., and Robshaw, M. (2013). Improved (and Practical) Public-Key Authentication for UHF RFID Tags. In Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications: 11th International Conference, CARDIS 2012, Graz, Austria, November 28-30, 2012, Revised Selected Papers Lecture Notes in Computer Science., S. Mangard, ed. (Springer), pp. 46–61.

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.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Resurgent Pine Martens Could Be Good News For Red Squirrels. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/resurgent-pine-martens-could-be-good-news-red-squirrels/.

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 (1977). Security of Computer Systems (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

Kim, S.-C. (2008). Defiant institutionalization: Democratization and social movements in South Korea, 1984–2002.

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

Kanter, J. (2017). Far-Right Leaders Loathe European Parliament, but Love Its Pay. New York Times, A12.

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
Abbreviation	Chem
ISSN (online)	2451-9294
Scope	Biochemistry General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry Environmental Chemistry Materials Chemistry Biochemistry, medical