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

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

A. Mandavilli, Leukaemia, Nature 498 (2013) S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.D. Pasteris, B. Wopenka, Laser-Raman spectroscopy: images of the Earth’s earliest fossils?, Nature 420 (2002) 476–7; discussion 477.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Messenger, L.P. Keller, D.S. Lauretta, Supernova olivine from cometary dust, Science 309 (2005) 737–741.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.M. Schilling, J.K. Oeser, J.N. Boustead, B.P. Flemming, R.M. O’Brien, Gluconeogenesis: re-evaluating the FOXO1-PGC-1alpha connection, Nature 443 (2006) E10-1.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

F. Landragin, Man-Machine Dialogue, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

B. Zohuri, Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis of Nuclear Reactors, 1st ed. 2015, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P.A. Delamere, F. Bagenal, C. Paranicas, A. Masters, A. Radioti, B. Bonfond, L. Ray, X. Jia, J. Nichols, C. Arridge, Solar Wind and Internally Driven Dynamics: Influences on Magnetodiscs and Auroral Responses, in: K. Szego, N. Achilleos, C. Arridge, S. Badman, P. Delamere, D. Grodent, M. Galland Kivelson, P. Louarn (Eds.), The Magnetodiscs and Aurorae of Giant Planets, Springer, New York, NY, 2016: pp. 51–97.

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 B.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, James Bond-Style Laser Watch Finally Invented, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/man-invents-james-bond-style-laser-watch/ (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, Farmers Home Administration Needs To Better Plan, Direct, Develop, and Control Its Computer-Based Unified Management Information System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.A. Spindel, Evaluation of optical sensor platforms for multiplexed detection of proteins, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2014.

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]

B. Sisario, A No. 1 for Lady Gaga, New York Times (2016) C3.

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 B
Abbreviation	J. Chromatogr. B Analyt. Technol. Biomed. Life Sci.
ISSN (print)	1570-0232
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Clinical Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry General Medicine