How to format your references using the Journal of Sulfur Chemistry citation style

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

Chicurel M. Genome analysis at your fingertips. Nature. 2002;419(6908):751, 753.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Joly P-B, Rip A. A timely harvest. Nature. 2007;450(7167):174.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bailes F, Dean RT, Pearce MT. Music cognition as mental time travel. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2690.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Sawano F, Terasaki I, Mori H, et al. An organic thyristor. Nature. 2005;437(7058):522–524.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Barnett JE, Johnson WB. Ethics Desk Reference for Counselors. Alexandria, VA, USA: American Counseling Association; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Širáň J, Jajcay R, editors. Symmetries in Graphs, Maps, and Polytopes: 5th SIGMAP Workshop, West Malvern, UK, July 2014. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

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Pesta G. Anaerobic Digestion of Organic Residues and Wastes. In: Oreopoulou V, Russ W, editors. Utilization of By-Products and Treatment of Waste in the Food Industry. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2007. p. 53–72.

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 Sulfur Chemistry.

Blog post

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Andrew E. Dolphin Study Suggests Saturated Fat Could Help Prevent Diabetes [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dolphin-study-suggests-saturated-fat-could-help-prevent-diabetes/.

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. Human Resources Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996. Report No.: AA-96-29(2). .

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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Warwick-Smith KM. Remembering Prudence: Tracking the Iconography of a Cardinal Virtue to Her Resurgence in Depth Psychology [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 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

[1]

Paulson M, Kishkovsky S. Play About Oscar Wilde Runs Afoul of Kremlin. New York Times. 2015 Jun 22;C1.

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 Sulfur Chemistry
Abbreviation	J. Sulphur Chem.
ISSN (print)	1741-5993
ISSN (online)	1741-6000
Scope	General Chemistry