How to format your references using the Journal of Chemical Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Chemical Sciences. 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

Zamore, Phillip D. 2002. Ancient pathways programmed by small RNAs. Science (New York, N.Y.) 296: 1265–1269.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kondo, Shigeru, and Takashi Miura. 2010. Reaction-diffusion model as a framework for understanding biological pattern formation. Science (New York, N.Y.) 329: 1616–1620.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weber, W., S. Riesen, and H. C. Siegmann. 2001. Magnetization precession by hot spin injection. Science (New York, N.Y.) 291: 1015–1018.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Xie, Zhi Qiang, Jaeil Bai, Yun Shen Zhou, Yi Gao, Jongbok Park, Thomas Guillemet, Lan Jiang, Xiao Cheng Zeng, and Yong Feng Lu. 2014. Control of crystallographic orientation in diamond synthesis through laser resonant vibrational excitation of precursor molecules. Scientific reports 4: 4581.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rodman, Gilbert B. 2014. Why Cultural Studies? Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Biel, Anders, Daniel Eek, Tommy Gärling, and Mathias Gustafsson, ed. 2008. New Issues and Paradigms in Research on Social Dilemmas. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Froeschlé, Claude, and Elena Lega. 2006. The fine structure of Hamiltonian systems revealed using the Fast Lyapunov Indicator. In Chaotic Worlds: From Order to Disorder in Gravitational N-Body Dynamical Systems, ed. B. A. Steves, A. J. Maciejewski, and M. Hendry, 131–165. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Journal of Chemical Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. Images Of Pluto’s Moon Charon Show Huge Fractures And Hints Of Icy ‘Lava Flows.’ IFLScience. IFLScience. October 8.

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. 2001. Air Traffic Control: FAA Enhanced the Controller-in-Charge Program, but More Comprehensive Evaluation is Needed. GAO-02-55. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mavromati, Anna. 2012. One Foot In. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

STEVEN LEE MYERS; C.J. Chivers contributed reporting from Beslan for this article, and Sophia Kishkovsky From Melikhovo. 2004. PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA FACES FULL “WAR” TO DIVIDE NATION. New York Times, September 5.

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	Journal of Chemical Sciences
ISSN (print)	0974-3626
ISSN (online)	0973-7103
Scope