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

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

1. Ledford H. Minimum telomere length defined for healthy cells. Nature. 2007;449:515.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Bartek J, Hodny Z. Ageing: Old blood stem cells feel the stress. Nature. 2014;512:140–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Pier H, Kapon E, Moser M. Strain effects and phase transitions in photonic resonator crystals. Nature. 2000;407:880–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Osterloo MM, Hamilton VE, Bandfield JL, Glotch TD, Baldridge AM, Christensen PR, et al. Chloride-bearing materials in the southern highlands of Mars. Science. 2008;319:1651–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Brown C. Mastering Elliott Wave Principle. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. DeJaeghere JG, Josić J, McCleary KS, editors. Education and Youth Agency: Qualitative Case Studies in Global Contexts. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Shanahan F. Linking lifestyle with microbiota and risk of chronic inflammatory disorders. In: Rook GAW, editor. The Hygiene Hypothesis and Darwinian Medicine. Basel: Birkhäuser; 2009. p. 93–102.

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 Systems Chemistry.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. Chilean Government Announces Colossal New Marine Reserve. IFLScience. 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/chilean-government-announces-colossal-new-marine-reserve/. Accessed 30 Oct 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. Vehicle Safety: Opportunities Exist to Enhance NHTSA’s New Car Assessment Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Lintott RW. The manipulation of time perception in John Adams’s “Doctor Atomic.” Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park; 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. Wasik JF. Death Is Inevitable. Financial Turmoil Afterward Isn’t. New York Times. 2017;:B3.

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 Systems Chemistry
ISSN (print)	1759-2208
Scope