How to format your references using the Corrosion Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Corrosion Science. 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

[1]

M.H. Alexander, Chemistry. Chemical kinetics under test, Science 331 (2011) 411–412.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Murakami, T. Kouyama, Crystal structure of squid rhodopsin, Nature 453 (2008) 363–367.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Sakuno, K. Tada, Y. Watanabe, Kinetochore geometry defined by cohesion within the centromere, Nature 458 (2009) 852–858.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Z. Zhang, J. Gildersleeve, Y.-Y. Yang, R. Xu, J.A. Loo, S. Uryu, C.-H. Wong, P.G. Schultz, A new strategy for the synthesis of glycoproteins, Science 303 (2004) 371–373.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M.V. Brook, Ultrasonic Inspection Technology Development and Search Unit Design, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

J. Raso, V. Heinz, eds., Pulsed Electric Fields Technology for the Food Industry: Fundamentals and Applications, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Smith, J. Friesen, Persisting Data, in: J. Friesen (Ed.), Android Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2011: pp. 257–308.

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 Corrosion Science.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Get a Doctor’s Note and Medical Marijuana Delivered with This New App, IFLScience (2015).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, The Treasury Financial Communications System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.J. Melhorn, The microstructure of food intake under conditions of high-fat diet, social stress and social subordination, Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 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

[1]

J. Dwyer, Cruz’s Jab at Trump, and the Politics of Hypocrisy, New York Times (2016) A23.

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	Corrosion Science
Abbreviation	Corros. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0010-938X
Scope	General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry General Materials Science