How to format your references using the Helvetica Chimica Acta citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Helvetica Chimica Acta. 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]

V. Vedral, ‘Quantifying entanglement in macroscopic systems’, Nature 2008, 453, 1004–1007.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. Wang, F. Glorius, ‘Chemistry. Lending handedness to the cyclopentadienyl ligand’, Science 2012, 338, 479–480.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

W. L. Barnes, A. Dereux, T. W. Ebbesen, ‘Surface plasmon subwavelength optics’, Nature 2003, 424, 824–830.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Vanlandewijck, L. He, M. A. Mäe, J. Andrae, K. Ando, F. Del Gaudio, K. Nahar, T. Lebouvier, B. Laviña, L. Gouveia, Y. Sun, E. Raschperger, M. Räsänen, Y. Zarb, N. Mochizuki, A. Keller, U. Lendahl, C. Betsholtz, ‘Author Correction: A molecular atlas of cell types and zonation in the brain vasculature’, Nature 2018, 560, E3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. Lemberger, M. Morel, Managing Complexity of Information Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Á. Herrero, B. Baruque, J. Sedano, H. Quintián, E. Corchado, Eds. , International Joint Conference: CISIS’15 and ICEUTE’15, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Gairing, T. Lücking, B. Monien, K. Tiemann, in Automata, Languages and Programming: 32nd International Colloquium, ICALP 2005, Lisbon, Portugal, July 11-15, 2005. Proceedings (Eds.: L. Caires, G.F. Italiano, L. Monteiro, C. Palamidessi, M. Yung), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005, pp. 51–65.

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 Helvetica Chimica Acta.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, ‘When We Understand How HIV Replicates Despite Drug Therapy, Then We Can Stop It’, can be found under https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/when-we-understand-how-hiv-replicates-despite-drug-therapy-then-we-can-stop-it/, 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, Guaranteed Student Loans: Analysis of Insurance Premiums Charged by Guaranty Agencies, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. N. Hernandez, Connecting the Community: A Grant Proposal, 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]

K. Feeney, ‘For Future Iron Chefs, More Places to Learn’, New York Times 2010, NJ13.

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	Helvetica Chimica Acta
ISSN (print)	0018-019X
ISSN (online)	1522-2675
Scope