How to format your references using the Antioxidants and Redox Signaling citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Antioxidants and Redox Signaling (ARS). 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Feldman DE. Physics. Electronically Erased. Science 2014;344(6190):1344–1345.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clutton-Brock T and Sheldon BC. Ecology. The Seven Ages of Pan. Science 2010;327(5970):1207–1208.

A journal article with 3 authors

Briggman KL, Helmstaedter M and Denk W. Wiring Specificity in the Direction-Selectivity Circuit of the Retina. Nature 2011;471(7337):183–188.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kastner JH, Richmond M, Grosso N, et al. An X-Ray Outburst from the Rapidly Accreting Young Star That Illuminates McNeil’s Nebula. Nature 2004;430(6998):429–431.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simmendinger H. HOAI 2013: Praxisleitfaden Für Ingenieure Und Architekten. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH: D-69451 Weinheim, Germany; 2013.

An edited book

Hurford C, Schneider M and Cowx I, (eds). Conservation Monitoring in Freshwater Habitats: A Practical Guide and Case Studies. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Takei H and Bhattacharjee MB. Pituitary Gland. In: Frozen Section Library: Endocrine Organs. (Zhai Q “jim.” ed). Frozen Section Library Springer: New York, NY; 2014; pp. 207–231.

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 Antioxidants and Redox Signaling.

Blog post

Andrew E. Why Do We Sleep? IFLScience; 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-do-we-sleep/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Subcontract Estimate For E-2c Passive Detection Systems in Prime Contract With Grumman Aerospace Corporation. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kulavuz-Onal D. English Language Teachers’ Learning to Teach with Technology through Participation in an Online Community of Practice: A Netnography of Webheads in Action. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida: Tampa, FL; 2013.

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

Rothenberg B. Sharapova’s Entry to Wimbledon: Qualify. New York Times 2017;D4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Feldman, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Clutton-Brock and Sheldon, 2010; Feldman, 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Clutton-Brock and Sheldon, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Kastner et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Antioxidants and Redox Signaling
ISSN (print)	1523-0864
ISSN (online)	1557-7716
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