How to format your references using the Theoretical Chemistry Accounts citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Theoretical Chemistry Accounts. 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

Harvey RP (2010) Planetary science. Carbonates and Martian climate. Science 329:400–401

A journal article with 2 authors

Kamena F, Spang A (2004) Tip20p prohibits back-fusion of COPII vesicles with the endoplasmic reticulum. Science 304:286–289

A journal article with 3 authors

Robinson DP, Das S, Watts AB (2006) Earthquake rupture stalled by a subducting fracture zone. Science 312:1203–1205

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Feng Y, Liu H, Luo W, et al (2013) Covalent functionalization of graphene by azobenzene with molecular hydrogen bonds for long-term solar thermal storage. Sci Rep 3:3260

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Allman K, Nogales XED (2015) Impact Investment. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ramtal D (2011) The Essential Guide to Physics for Flash Games, Animation, and Simulations. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Nishinaga T (2015) Planar Cyclooctatetraenes and Related Ring Systems: Antiaromaticity and Applications. In: Akasaka T, Osuka A, Fukuzumi S, et al (eds) Chemical Science of π-Electron Systems. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 47–67

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 Theoretical Chemistry Accounts.

Blog post

Davis J (2016) These Are The Biggest Threats To The Future Of Humanity. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/new-report-outlines-biggest-threats-humanity/. 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

Government Accountability Office (2007) NASA: Progress Made on Strategic Human Capital Management, but Future Program Challenges Remain. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Carey SA (2013) Assessing the presence of antibiotic-resistant Enterococcus in reclaimed water used for spray irrigation. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Williams J (2017) Hamilton Minus Music. New York Times BR4

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	Theoretical Chemistry Accounts
Abbreviation	Theor. Chem. Acc.
ISSN (print)	1432-881X
ISSN (online)	1432-2234
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry