How to format your references using the Foundations of Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Foundations of 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

Humphries, C.: Drug development: a complicated path. Nature. 515, S4-5 (2014)

A journal article with 2 authors

Garcia, V., Bibes, M.: Electronics: inside story of ferroelectric memories. Nature. 483, 279–281 (2012)

A journal article with 3 authors

Motose, H., Sugiyama, M., Fukuda, H.: A proteoglycan mediates inductive interaction during plant vascular development. Nature. 429, 873–878 (2004)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Turelli, P., Mangeat, B., Jost, S., Vianin, S., Trono, D.: Inhibition of hepatitis B virus replication by APOBEC3G. Science. 303, 1829 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lau, J.Y.F.: An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Creativity. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2011)

An edited book

Psaraftis, H.N. ed: Green Transportation Logistics: The Quest for Win-Win Solutions. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Padhan, S.K., Behera, P.K., Mohapatra, R.N.: Second-order Symmetric Duality and Variational Problems. In: Mohapatra, R.N., Chowdhury, D.R., and Giri, D. (eds.) Mathematics and Computing: ICMC, Haldia, India, January 2015. pp. 49–57. Springer India, New Delhi (2015)

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 Foundations of Chemistry.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Scientists Discover Brain Circuit That Helps To Displace Bad Memories, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-discover-circuit-helps-displace-bad-memories/

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: Automatic Data Processing Problems at the Social Security Administration. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1981)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hill, J.A.: Classical three-body systems and the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem, (2012)

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

Corkery, M., Protess, B.: How the Twinkie Made the Superrich Even Richer, (2016)

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Humphries 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Garcia and Bibes 2012; Humphries 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Garcia and Bibes 2012)
Three or more authors: (Turelli et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Foundations of Chemistry
Abbreviation	Found. Chem.
ISSN (print)	1386-4238
ISSN (online)	1572-8463
Scope	History Biochemistry General Chemistry