How to format your references using the Inorganic Chemistry citation style

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

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Sun, T.-P. Plant Science. Sex and the Single Fern. Science 2014, 346 (6208), 423–424.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Karim, S. S. A.; Karim, Q. A. AIDS Research Must Link to Local Policy. Nature 2010, 463 (7282), 733–734.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Sethna, J. P.; Dahmen, K. A.; Myers, C. R. Crackling Noise. Nature 2001, 410 (6825), 242–250.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Estévez, R.; Boettger, T.; Stein, V.; Birkenhäger, R.; Otto, E.; Hildebrandt, F.; Jentsch, T. J. Barttin Is a Cl- Channel Beta-Subunit Crucial for Renal Cl- Reabsorption and Inner Ear K+ Secretion. Nature 2001, 414 (6863), 558–561.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Bunnell, T. From World City to the World in One City; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

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Ishimori, H. An Introduction to Non-Abelian Discrete Symmetries for Particle Physicists; Kobayashi, T., Ohki, H., Okada, H., Shimizu, Y., Tanimoto, M., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Physics; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; Vol. 858.

A chapter in an edited book

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Li, Y.; Li, T. Bioinformatics on Embedded Systems: A Case Study of Computational Biology Applications on VLIW Architecture. In Embedded Software and Systems: Second International Conference, ICESS 2005, Xi’an, China, December 16-18, 2005. Proceedings; Yang, L. T., Zhou, X., Zhao, W., Wu, Z., Zhu, Y., Lin, M., Eds.; Hutchison, D., Kanade, T., Kittler, J., Kleinberg, J. M., Mattern, F., Mitchell, J. C., Naor, M., Nierstrasz, O., Pandu Rangan, C., Steffen, B., Sudan, M., Terzopoulos, D., Tygar, D., Vardi, M. Y., Weikum, G., Series Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005; pp 16–29.

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 Inorganic Chemistry.

Blog post

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Hamilton, K. What Will The World Actually Look Like At 1.5°C Of Warming?. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-will-the-world-actually-look-like-at-1-point-5c-of-warming/ (accessed 2018-10-30)

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

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Government Accountability Office. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Broadcast Policies and Practices and the Board for International Broadcasting Oversight of Radio Programming; 126571; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Gilbert, C. Factors Associated With Dietetic Interns’ Knowledge of Sodium and the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. 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

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Loomis, G. Making Music With a Moral. New York Times. November 13, 2012, p 0.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Inorganic Chemistry
Abbreviation	Inorg. Chem.
ISSN (print)	0020-1669
ISSN (online)	1520-510X
Scope	Inorganic Chemistry Physical and Theoretical Chemistry