How to format your references using the Chromatographia citation style

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

Gillespie R (2004) Community assembly through adaptive radiation in Hawaiian spiders. Science 303:356–359

A journal article with 2 authors

De Yoreo JJ, Dove PM (2004) Materials science. Shaping crystals with biomolecules. Science 306:1301–1302

A journal article with 3 authors

Putnam CD, Hayes TK, Kolodner RD (2009) Specific pathways prevent duplication-mediated genome rearrangements. Nature 460:984–989

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Schneider H, Downey J, Smith A, et al (2006) Reversal of the TCR stop signal by CTLA-4. Science 313:1972–1975

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ratliff TA (2005) The Laboratory Quality Assurance System. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Kusano M, Shioda S (2007) New Frontiers in Regenerative Medicine. Springer Japan, Tokyo

A chapter in an edited book

Schuck S (2011) Resisting Complacency: My Teaching Through an Outsider’s Eyes. In: Schuck S, Pereira P (eds) What Counts in Teaching Mathematics: Adding Value to Self and Content. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 61–73

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 Chromatographia.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Whole-Body Imaging Reveals AIDS Virus’ Hiding Spots. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/whole-body-imaging-reveals-aids-virus-hiding-spots/. 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 (1977) Vulnerabilities of Telecommunications Systems to Unauthorized Use. 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

Maitland J (2017) Differences in Perceived Organizational Justice Based Upon Overall Performance Appraisal Ratings. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Vecsey G (2010) U.S. Should Know There’s No Sulking in Soccer. New York Times B15

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	Chromatographia
Abbreviation	Chromatographia
ISSN (print)	0009-5893
ISSN (online)	1612-1112
Scope	Biochemistry Clinical Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Organic Chemistry