How to format your references using the Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic 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	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

Savage, N.: Photonics: Trick of the light. Nature. 495, S8-9 (2013)

A journal article with 2 authors

Horvath, P., Barrangou, R.: CRISPR/Cas, the immune system of bacteria and archaea. Science. 327, 167–170 (2010)

A journal article with 3 authors

Regan, C.K., Craig, S.L., Brauman, J.I.: Steric effects and solvent effects in ionic reactions. Science. 295, 2245–2247 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ito, H., Yamada, R., Tamura, A., Arai, S., Horie, K., Hokada, T.: Earth’s youngest exposed granite and its tectonic implications: the 10-0.8 Ma Kurobegawa Granite. Sci. Rep. 3, 1306 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Markley, N.G.: Principles of Differential Equations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2004)

An edited book

Canal, C., Idani, A. eds: Software Engineering and Formal Methods: SEFM 2014 Collocated Workshops: HOFM, SAFOME, OpenCert, MoKMaSD, WS-FMDS, Grenoble, France, September 1-2, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Williams, M.A.J., Talbot, M.R.: Late Quaternary Environments in the Nile Basin. In: Dumont, H.J. (ed.) The Nile: Origin, Environments, Limnology and Human Use. pp. 61–72. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2009)

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 Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Blood Donors In Sweden Get A Text Whenever They Save A Life, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/blood-donors-sweden-get-text-whenever-their-blood-flows-another-human/

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: Railroad Regulation: Competitive Access and Its Effects on Selected Railroads and Shippers. 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

Khalili, A.: Spectrally formulated user-defined element in Abaqus for wave motion analysis and health monitoring of composite structures, (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

Gustines, G.G.: From Insider, a Comics Venture to Help Newcomers, (2010)

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 Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry
Abbreviation	J. Incl. Phenom. Macrocycl. Chem.
ISSN (print)	1388-3127
ISSN (online)	1573-1111
Scope	Food Science General Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics