How to format your references using the Journal of Chromatography A citation style

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

[1]

S.A. Chambers, Surface Science. Stability at the surface, Science 346 (2014) 1186–1187.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L.F. Galloway, J.R. Etterson, Transgenerational plasticity is adaptive in the wild, Science 318 (2007) 1134–1136.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Blumenstock, G. Cadamuro, R. On, Predicting poverty and wealth from mobile phone metadata, Science 350 (2015) 1073–1076.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

G. Lerosey, J. de Rosny, A. Tourin, M. Fink, Focusing beyond the diffraction limit with far-field time reversal, Science 315 (2007) 1120–1122.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.W. Ludders, M. McMillan, Errors in Veterinary Anesthesia, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

J.C. Shin, G.A. Postiglione, F. Huang, eds., Mass Higher Education Development in East Asia: Strategy, Quality, and Challenges, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. Fehdi, I. Nouioua, D. Belfar, L. Djabri, E. Salameh, Detection of Underground Cavities by Combining Electrical Resistivity Imaging and Ground Penetrating Radar Surveys: A Case Study from Draa Douamis Area (North East of Algeria), in: J. Mudry, F. Zwahlen, C. Bertrand, J.W. LaMoreaux (Eds.), H2Karst Research in Limestone Hydrogeology, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 69–82.

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 Chromatography A.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Progress on Gene Therapy for Motor Neurone Disease, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/progress-gene-therapy-motor-neurone-disease/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, Gallaudet College and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, 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

[1]

H. Kim, Prediction and Elimination of Galling in Forming Galvanized Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS), Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2008.

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.R. Gordon, E. Schmitt, Defying Turkey, U.S. Will Arm Kurds in Syria, New York Times (2017) A1.

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 Chromatography A
Abbreviation	J. Chromatogr. A
ISSN (print)	0021-9673
Scope	Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Organic Chemistry General Medicine