What does a Organic Letters reference list entry look like?

A journal article formatted in Organic Letters looks like this: (1) Rivera, M.; Chen, D. The Mapping of Meaning: A Study of Citation Practice. Journal of Scholarly Communication 2021, 12 (3), 145–162. https://doi.org/10.1000/jsc.2021.145.

How can I generate a Organic Letters citation?

Use the free generator on this page: paste a DOI, URL (e.g. a news article), or BibTeX, or search for a book by title or author. Select Organic Letters as the citation style and click Generate to get a formatted reference you can copy into your paper or bibliography.

Organic Letters Citation Generator

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Organic Letters citation examples

The same three sources formatted in Organic Letters — a numeric style: sources are numbered in the order they are first cited, and in-text citations use those numbers:

Journal article: (1) Rivera, M.; Chen, D. The Mapping of Meaning: A Study of Citation Practice. Journal of Scholarly Communication 2021, 12 (3), 145–162. https://doi.org/10.1000/jsc.2021.145.
Book: (2) Okafor, A. The Craft of Research Writing, 2nd ed.; University Press: Cambridge, 2019.
Website: (3) Larsen, S. How peer review works. Open Science Digest. https://www.example.org/peer-review (accessed 2024-01-10).
In-text citation (for the journal article): 1

About Organic Letters

Citation style for Organic Letters. From the Citation Style Language repository.

When to use Organic Letters: When submitting to or citing in publications that use the Organic Letters style. Common in: International.

Subject areas: chemistry.

Formatting rules: Organic Letters follows the formatting of ACS full, the parent style it is based on.

How to use this Organic Letters generator

Paste a DOI, a URL to a news article or webpage, or raw BibTeX into the box above. You can also search for a book by title or author and cite it by ISBN. Choose "Organic Letters" in the style dropdown (it's pre-selected on this page), then click "Generate citation." Copy the result into your reference list or bibliography. You can edit the generated entry (e.g. fix a title or add a date) before copying.

Frequently asked questions about Organic Letters

What is Organic Letters?: Citation style for Organic Letters. From the Citation Style Language repository.
When should I use Organic Letters?: When submitting to or citing in publications that use the Organic Letters style.
What does an in-text citation look like in Organic Letters?: Organic Letters is a numeric style: sources are numbered in the order they are first cited, and in-text citations use those numbers. Citing our sample journal article in the text looks like: 1
What does a Organic Letters reference list entry look like?: A journal article formatted in Organic Letters looks like this: (1) Rivera, M.; Chen, D. The Mapping of Meaning: A Study of Citation Practice. Journal of Scholarly Communication 2021, 12 (3), 145–162. https://doi.org/10.1000/jsc.2021.145.
How can I generate a Organic Letters citation?: Use the free generator on this page: paste a DOI, URL (e.g. a news article), or BibTeX, or search for a book by title or author. Select Organic Letters as the citation style and click Generate to get a formatted reference you can copy into your paper or bibliography.

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