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

Weydt, P. Biomedical Centre Memorial to Victims of Nazi Research. Nature 2000, 403, 816.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pyenson, N.D.; Pyenson, L. Treating Medieval Manuscripts as Fossils. Science 2005, 309, 698–701; author reply 698-701.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, D.; Zhang, P.; Yan, J. Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study of High-Pressure Melting of Beryllium Oxide. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4707.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kumar, P.; Wikfeldt, K.T.; Schlesinger, D.; Pettersson, L.G.M.; Stanley, H.E. The Boson Peak in Supercooled Water. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 1980.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Démoulin, B.; Besnier, P. Electromagnetic Reverberation Chambers; John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ, 2011; ISBN 9781118602034.

An edited book

Environmental Chemistry: Green Chemistry and Pollutants in Ecosystems; Lichtfouse, E., Schwarzbauer, J., Robert, D., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005; ISBN 9783540228608.

A chapter in an edited book

Heidling, E. Management of the Informal by Situational Project Management. In Innovation Management by Promoting the Informal: Artistic, Experience-based, Playful; Böhle, F., Bürgermeister, M., Porschen, S., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; pp. 63–103 ISBN 9783642280146.

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

Hamilton, K. Robot Bees Vs Real Bees – Why Tiny Drones Can’t Compete With The Real Thing Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/robot-bees-vs-real-bees-why-tiny-drones-cant-compete-with-the-real-thing/ (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 Customs Automation: Internal Control Weaknesses in Customs’ Revenue Collection Process; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1989;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Best, W. Beneath the Silence. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2009.

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

Stewart, J.B. Tax Cuts Are Easy, but a Tax Overhaul? Three Proposals to Make the Math Work. New York Times 2017, B1.

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