How to format your references using the Computational and Theoretical Chemistry citation style

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

[1]

P.L. Foster, Comment on “A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorus,” Science 332 (2011) 1149; author reply 1149.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Scaffidi, T. Misteli, Lamin A-dependent nuclear defects in human aging, Science 312 (2006) 1059–1063.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G.J. Sharam, A.R.E. Sinclair, R. Turkington, Serengeti birds maintain forests by inhibiting seed predators, Science 325 (2009) 51.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Osterblad, K. Norrdahl, E. Korpimäki, P. Huovinen, Antibiotic resistance. How wild are wild mammals?, Nature 409 (2001) 37–38.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Olsson, Understanding Changing Telecommunications, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

D. Roy, M.T. Dorak, eds., Environmental Factors, Genes, and the Development of Human Cancers, Springer, New York, NY, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Chela-Flores, Fluid Mechanics and Systems Biology for Understanding the Cosmic Distribution of Life: A Review, in: L.D.G. Sigalotti, J. Klapp, E. Sira (Eds.), Computational and Experimental Fluid Mechanics with Applications to Physics, Engineering and the Environment, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 107–120.

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 Computational and Theoretical Chemistry.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, The Life-Changing Love Of One Of The 20th Century’s Greatest Physicists, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/physics/life-changing-love-one-20th-century-s-greatest-physicists/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Supercomputing in Industry, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.W. Stevens, Perception of counselor ethical behavior: A quantitative look at dual relationships in Maine, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2008.

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]

J.R. Oestreich, Aiding and Abetting Operatic Dabblers, New York Times (2017) C6.

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	Computational and Theoretical Chemistry
Abbreviation	Comput. Theor. Chem.
ISSN (print)	2210-271X
Scope	Biochemistry Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics