How to format your references using the Coordination Chemistry Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 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]

C. Seife, ECONOMICS NOBEL: Dealing With Biases and Discrete Choices, Science 290 (2000) 427.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E. Bruun, M. Givoni, Sustainable mobility: Six research routes to steer transport policy, Nature 523 (2015) 29–31.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.E. Dekas, R.S. Poretsky, V.J. Orphan, Deep-sea archaea fix and share nitrogen in methane-consuming microbial consortia, Science 326 (2009) 422–426.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Nakada, I. Tai, S. Panier, A. Al-Hakim, S.-I. Iemura, Y.-C. Juang, L. O’Donnell, A. Kumakubo, M. Munro, F. Sicheri, A.-C. Gingras, T. Natsume, T. Suda, D. Durocher, Non-canonical inhibition of DNA damage-dependent ubiquitination by OTUB1, Nature 466 (2010) 941–946.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.J. Seifert, Profiting from Weekly Options, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

H. Chen, L.S. Kao, eds., Success in Academic Surgery: Part 1, Springer, London, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Stec, Reflective Teaching in an English Primary Classroom, in: D. Gabryś-Barker, A. Wojtaszek (Eds.), Studying Second Language Acquisition from a Qualitative Perspective, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 61–70.

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 Coordination Chemistry Reviews.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Infant’s HEAD Reattached Following Internal Decapitation, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/infants-head-reattached-following-internal-decapitation/ (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, Telecommunications: GSA Needs to Improve Process for Awarding Task Orders for Local Service, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.J. Karlen, The Biocomplexity of Benthic Communities Associated with a Shallow-water Hydrothermal System in Papua New Guinea, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 2010.

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. Hanc, Solitude on the Hudson River, New York Times (2017) F38.

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	Coordination Chemistry Reviews
Abbreviation	Coord. Chem. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0010-8545
Scope	General Chemistry