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Royal Society of Chemistry Citation Generator
Generate references in Royal Society of Chemistry from a DOI or link in seconds. CitApp renders this style with citeproc, the same engine as Zotero and Mendeley, so every comma matches the spec. Free for students, no sign-up to try.
What a Royal Society of Chemistry reference looks like
Royal Society of Chemistry is a numeric style: sources are cited with a bracketed or superscript number in the order they first appear, and the reference list is numbered to match.
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Journal article
1 L. S. Babonis and M. Q. Martindale, PNAS, 2022, 119, e2113701119.
Book
1 T. S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, University of Chicago Press, 1970.
Web page
1 IPCC, Climate change 2021: the physical science basis, https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/, (accessed 15 July 2026).
Journal article with 26 authors
1 C. R. Harris, K. J. Millman, S. J. van der Walt, R. Gommers, P. Virtanen, D. Cournapeau, E. Wieser, J. Taylor, S. Berg, N. J. Smith, R. Kern, M. Picus, S. Hoyer, M. H. van Kerkwijk, M. Brett, A. Haldane, J. F. del Río, M. Wiebe, P. Peterson, P. Gérard-Marchant, K. Sheppard, T. Reddy, W. Weckesser, H. Abbasi, C. Gohlke and T. E. Oliphant, Nature, 2020, 585, 357–362.
Royal Society of Chemistry at a glance
Read from the style file and checked against the examples above.
- Used mainly in chemistry.
- In the text, sources are cited with superscript numbers.
- For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26.
- First names are shortened to initials.
- The reference leaves the DOI out.
- Web pages include the date you accessed them.
- The reference list is numbered in the order sources are first cited.
- The style file was last updated in January 2026.
The guide this style follows: rsc.org
How Royal Society of Chemistry compares with CSE Manual: Scientific Style and Format 9th edition (citation-sequence)
Where Royal Society of Chemistry differs:
- For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26.
- The reference leaves the DOI out.
The same journal article in CSE Manual: Scientific Style and Format 9th edition (citation-sequence)
1. Babonis LS, Martindale MQ. A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians. PNAS. 2022;119(19):e2113701119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113701119
Frequently asked questions
How many authors does Royal Society of Chemistry list?
For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26.
How does Royal Society of Chemistry handle DOIs and web pages?
The reference leaves the DOI out. Web pages include the date you accessed them.
How is the reference list ordered in Royal Society of Chemistry?
The reference list is numbered in the order sources are first cited.
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