ChemTexts Referencing Guide

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This is the Citationsy guide to ChemTexts citations, reference lists, in-text citations, and bibliographies.
The complete, comprehensive guide shows you how easy citing any source can be. Referencing books, youtube videos, websites, articles, journals, podcasts, images, videos, or music in ChemTexts.

How to do citations in ChemTexts style?

How do you cite a book in the ChemTexts referencing style?

Here’s an example book citation in ChemTexts using placeholders:

Last Name FN (2000) Title, Edition. Publisher, City

So if we want to cite, for example, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou we’d do so like this:
ChemTexts citation:

Angelou M (1969) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1st ed. Random House, New York

And an in-text citation book citation in ChemTexts looks like this: [1]

How to reference a journal article in the ChemTexts citation style?

How do you cite scientific papers in ChemTexts format?

Here’s a ChemTexts journal citation example using placeholders:

Author1 LastnameAF, Author3 LastnameAF (2000) Title. Container Volume:pages Used. https://doi.org/DOI

So if we want to reference this scientific article: “Testing consumer preferences for iced-coffee: Does the drinking environment have any influence?” by C. Petit and J.M. Sieffermann in ChemTexts:

Petit C, Sieffermann J (2007) Testing consumer preferences for iced-coffee: Does the drinking environment have any influence?. 18:161-172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2006.05.008

And an in-text citation would look like this: [1]

How to cite a website in a paper in ChemTexts style?

Here’s an ChemTexts example website reference:

Author1 LastnameAF, Author2 LastnameAF (2000) Title. https://www.example.com. Accessed 2 Dec. 2021

To reference the article located at this link:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/05/uselections20083
on The Guardian website:

Tran M (2008) Barack Obama To Be America’s First Black President. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/05/uselections20083. Accessed 2 Dec. 2021

And an in-text citation would look like this: [1]

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How to cite a YouTube video ChemTexts

Here’s a ChemTexts citation YouTube video example:

ChannelName (2000) Title. In: YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXXX. Accessed 2 Dec. 2021

So how to cite a video ChemTexts?

Pixar (2015) Pizza Clip — Inside Out. In: YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W6rntBADUQ. Accessed 2 Dec. 2021

And an in-text video citation would look like this: [1]

How to cite a podcast using ChemTexts referencing style

It is becoming more and more common to reference podcasts in essays or other school work.
Here’s how to reference a podcast it in ChemTexts.

Lastname F (2000) Title

Podcast referencing example in ChemTexts using “This American Life” episode 640:

This American Life (2018) 640: Five Women

And an in-text citation would look like this: [1]

How to cite a piece of music or a song using ChemTexts referencing style?

An example song citation in ChemTexts.

Lastname F (2000) Song Title

Let‘s say we want to reference “Here Comes the Sun” off The Beatles “Abbey Road” album in ChemTexts:

The Beatles (1969) Here Comes the Sun

And an in-text citation would look like this: [1]

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