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 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

Cohen, M.D. Economics. Learning with Regret. Science 2008, 319, 1052–1053.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gabel, H.W.; Greenberg, M.E. Genetics. The Maturing Brain Methylome. Science 2013, 341, 626–627.

A journal article with 3 authors

True, H.L.; Berlin, I.; Lindquist, S.L. Epigenetic Regulation of Translation Reveals Hidden Genetic Variation to Produce Complex Traits. Nature 2004, 431, 184–187.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Boettger, T.; Hübner, C.A.; Maier, H.; Rust, M.B.; Beck, F.X.; Jentsch, T.J. Deafness and Renal Tubular Acidosis in Mice Lacking the K-Cl Co-Transporter Kcc4. Nature 2002, 416, 874–878.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rossetti, N. Managing Power Electronics; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2005; ISBN 9780471776338.

An edited book

The Handbook of Neuropsychiatric Biomarkers, Endophenotypes and Genes: Neuropsychological Endophenotypes and Biomarkers; Ritsner, M.S., Ed.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2009; ISBN 9781402094637.

A chapter in an edited book

Ginat, D.T.; Moonis, G.; Freitag, S.K. Imaging After Oculoplastic Surgery. In Post-treatment Imaging of the Orbit; Ginat, D.T., Freitag, S.K., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015; pp. 65–124 ISBN 9783662440223.

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

Luntz, S. Five Reasons Bats Really Are Scary, and One Why They Aren’t Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/five-reasons-bats-really-are-scary-and-one-why-they-arent/ (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 Telecommunications: FCC’s Oversight Efforts to Control Cross-Subsidization; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1993;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Builes, A.J. Inferring Function: A Study of Three Prehistoric Structures in El Pital, Puerto López, Manabí, Ecuador. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University: Boca Raton, FL, 2015.

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

Atlas, J. Headed for the Graveyard of Books. New York Times 2017, BR21.

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