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]

P. Smaglik, “Quiet revolution” in chemistry could revive public and private sectors, Nature 406 (2000) 807–808.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

W.P. Esler, M.S. Wolfe, A portrait of Alzheimer secretases--new features and familiar faces, Science 293 (2001) 1449–1454.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Rees, B. Koppelman, N. Davison, Scientific steps to nuclear disarmament, Nature 465 (2010) 290–291.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Wu, E. Boyle, W. Sunda, L.S. Wen, Soluble and colloidal iron in the oligotrophic North Atlantic and North Pacific, Science 293 (2001) 847–849.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W. Szpankowski, Average Case Analysis of Algorithms on Sequences, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2001.

An edited book

[1]

S. Chakraborty, Computational Musicology in Hindustani Music, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. King, Structuring Peer Interaction to Promote Higher-Order Thinking and Complex Learning in Cooperating Groups, in: R.M. Gillies, A.F. Ashman, J. Terwel (Eds.), The Teacher’s Role in Implementing Cooperative Learning in the Classroom, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2008: pp. 73–91.

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]

J. Davis, Nanostructure Of Dragonfly Wings Kills Bacteria By Tearing Them To Pieces, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/nanostructure-of-dragonfly-wings-kills-bacteria-by-tearing-them-to-pieces/ (accessed October 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Attrition of Scientists at Three Regulatory Agencies, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

P.R. Mosing, Maternal perceptions of their infants: Do perceptions predict maternal motivation to nurture?, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 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]

G. Johnson, When Radiation Isn’t the Risk, New York Times (2015) D3.

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