How to format your references using the Chemistry Central Journal citation style

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

Potocnik J (2007) Renewable energy sources and the realities of setting an energy agenda. Science 315:810–811

A journal article with 2 authors

Laurance WF, Balmford A (2013) Land use: A global map for road building. Nature 495:308–309

A journal article with 3 authors

Thomas DSG, Knight M, Wiggs GFS (2005) Remobilization of southern African desert dune systems by twenty-first century global warming. Nature 435:1218–1221

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Nalbant SS, Steacy S, Sieh K, et al (2005) Seismology: earthquake risk on the Sunda trench. Nature 435:756–757

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hunter DA (2009) A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Bourguignon J-P, Jégou B, Kerdelhué B, et al (2011) Multi-System Endocrine Disruption. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Guinard D, Trifa V, Mattern F, Wilde E (2011) From the Internet of Things to the Web of Things: Resource-oriented Architecture and Best Practices. In: Uckelmann D, Harrison M, Michahelles F (eds) Architecting the Internet of Things. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 97–129

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 Chemistry Central Journal.

Blog post

Andrews R (2016) Movement Has Been Detected Along The San Andreas Fault. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/movement-has-been-detected-along-the-san-andreas-fault/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2017) Technology Assessment: Internet of Things: Status and implications of an increasingly connected world. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Corbets JB (2017) Evaluating System Architecture Quality and Architecting Team Performance Using Information Quality Theory. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Crow K (2003) Reservoir’s Sunken Fountain Is Rising From the Deep. New York Times 145

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	Chemistry Central Journal
Abbreviation	Chem. Cent. J.
ISSN (online)	1752-153X
Scope	General Chemistry