Royal Society of Chemistry referencing

Reference list

A reference list is a list of all the material that you have referred to in your work

The reference list is arranged in numerical order, accoriding to the order of citations in your work.

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) referencing style is used in all RSC journals.

Referencing in the RSC style is two part process:

Footnote number When you want to cite a source in your work, place a number at the end of the sentence (after the punctuation) written in superscript (e.g.: Plata et al. used HPLC to determine the carbohydrates present during a Saccharomyces fermentation.⁷) This number refers to a reference in your reference list.
Reference list A list of references you have referred to, listed in numerical order, determined by the footnote number in your work.

The guide "How to reference in the Royal Society of Chemistry style" is available from the Royal Society of Chemistry. Click on ‘download’ to save the guide as a PDF.

A full guide, "In Journal author & reviewer gudielines", is also available for anyone who will be publishing with the Royal Society of Chemistry Journals.