How to format your references using the Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable 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	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

[1]

J. Chun, Immunology. The sources of a lipid conundrum, Science 316 (2007) 208–210.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. Mitchell-Olds, J. Schmitt, Genetic mechanisms and evolutionary significance of natural variation in Arabidopsis, Nature 441 (2006) 947–952.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y.S. Bonneh, A. Cooperman, D. Sagi, Motion-induced blindness in normal observers, Nature 411 (2001) 798–801.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Cao, C. Li, L. Wang, M. Shang, G. Wei, J. Zheng, W. Yang, Long-lived and well-resolved Mn²⁺ ion emissions in CuInS-ZnS quantum dots, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7510.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. Mazar Madjar, Radio Spectrum Management, John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

D. Wu, ed., Quantitative Financial Risk Management, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Deepak, P.M. Deshpande, Categorizing Operators, in: P.M. Deshpande (Ed.), Operators for Similarity Search: Semantics, Techniques and Usage Scenarios, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 33–53.

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 Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, In Focus: New Horizons’ Crisp Images Shed New Light On The Origins Of Pluto And Its Moons, IFLScience (2015).

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, Maritime Infrastructure: Opportunities Exist to Improve the Effectiveness of Federal Efforts to Support the Marine Transportation System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.A. Gunderson, The Moderating Effect of Type of Target on the Relationship between Collective Rumination and Displaced Aggression, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

M. Santora, A.L. Baker, Workers Search for Victims Amid Pockets of Fire, New York Times (2015) A16.

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	Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry
Abbreviation	Curr. Opin. Green Sustain. Chem.
ISSN (print)	2452-2236
Scope	Catalysis Process Chemistry and Technology Chemistry (miscellaneous) Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Waste Management and Disposal