How to format your references using the Journal of Molecular Catalysis. A, Chemical citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Molecular Catalysis. A, Chemical. 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

[1]

A.R. Wright, Realising Haldane’s vision for a Chern insulator in buckled lattices, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2736.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G.M. Whitesides, G.W. Crabtree, Don’t forget long-term fundamental research in energy, Science 315 (2007) 796–798.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y.C. Li, T.H. Cheng, M.R. Gartenberg, Establishment of transcriptional silencing in the absence of DNA replication, Science 291 (2001) 650–653.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Fyhn, T. Hafting, A. Treves, M.-B. Moser, E.I. Moser, Hippocampal remapping and grid realignment in entorhinal cortex, Nature 446 (2007) 190–194.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Askoolum, System Building with APL + Win, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2007.

An edited book

[1]

M. Becker, J. Davis, eds., Surgical Management of Inflammatory Eye Disease, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Shen, Territorial Fragility and the Future of Tibet: Sub-sovereignty, Problems and Theoretical Solutions, in: R. Guo, C. Freeman (Eds.), Managing Fragile Regions: Method and Application, Springer, New York, NY, 2011: pp. 61–79.

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 Molecular Catalysis. A, Chemical.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, Pokémon GO’s Augmented Reality Has Made The World Are Far Weirder Place, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/pokmon-gos-augmented-reality-has-made-the-world-are-far-weirder-place/ (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, Gender Equity: Men’s and Women’s Participation in Higher Education, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

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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D.L. Lazor, “Festen”: A celebration (of the imagination!), Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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. Crair, Where Mark Twain Found Inspiration, New York Times (2016) TR9.

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 Molecular Catalysis. A, Chemical
Abbreviation	J. Mol. Catal. A Chem.
ISSN (print)	1381-1169
Scope	Catalysis Process Chemistry and Technology Physical and Theoretical Chemistry