How to format your references using the Antioxidants citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Antioxidants. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Kerr, R.A. GEOPHYSICS: Core Takes a Page From the Sea Floor. Science 2000, 290, 1274b–1275b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Janssen, M.; Renn, J. History: Einstein Was No Lone Genius. Nature 2015, 527, 298–300.

A journal article with 3 authors

Puckett, J.G.; Kelley, D.H.; Ouellette, N.T. Searching for Effective Forces in Laboratory Insect Swarms. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4766.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gibcus, J.H.; Samejima, K.; Goloborodko, A.; Samejima, I.; Naumova, N.; Nuebler, J.; Kanemaki, M.T.; Xie, L.; Paulson, J.R.; Earnshaw, W.C.; et al. A Pathway for Mitotic Chromosome Formation. Science 2018, 359.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chin, D.A. Water-Quality Engineering in Natural Systems; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2006; ISBN 9780471784555.

An edited book

Marginality: Addressing the Nexus of Poverty, Exclusion and Ecology; von Braun, J., Gatzweiler, F.W., Eds.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2014; ISBN 9789400770607.

A chapter in an edited book

Khosravy, M.; Alsharif, M.R.; Yamashita, K. An Efficient ICA Based Approach to Multiuser Detection in MIMO OFDM Systems. In Multi-Carrier Systems & Solutions 2009; Plass, S., Dammann, A., Kaiser, S., Fazel, K., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2009; pp. 47–56 ISBN 9789048125296.

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.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Robotics Researchers Create Mechanical Tentacles Capable Of Picking Up An Ant Without Crushing It Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/octopus-robot-uses-tentacles-pick-ant-without-crushing-it/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Head Start: Comprehensive Approach to Identifying and Addressing Risks Could Help Prevent Grantee Financial Management Weaknesses; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2005;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Stephens, A.H. William Harold Fletcher (b. 1923): His Life and Career in Music Education at Oklahoma Christian University, 1950–2012. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona: Tucson, AZ, 2012.

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. Bouchard Is Out, but Her Concussion Suit From the 2015 Open Goes On. New York Times 2016, B9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Antioxidants
Abbreviation	Antioxidants (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2076-3921
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Clinical Biochemistry Molecular Biology Physiology