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 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

[1]

S. Carroll, Insignificance, Nature 429 (2004) 27.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G. Laver, E. Garman, Virology. The origin and control of pandemic influenza, Science 293 (2001) 1776–1777.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Külheim, J. Agren, S. Jansson, Rapid regulation of light harvesting and plant fitness in the field, Science 297 (2002) 91–93.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.M. Blais, L.E. Kimpe, D. McMahon, B.E. Keatley, M.L. Mallory, M.S.V. Douglas, J.P. Smol, Arctic seabirds transport marine-derived contaminants, Science 309 (2005) 445.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M.L.C. Bernheim, Ciba Foundation Symposium 39 - Monoamine Oxidase and its Inhibition: Ciba/Monoamine, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, UK, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

B. Perry, S. Dockett, A. Petriwskyj, eds., Transitions to School - International Research, Policy and Practice, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H.M.W. Verheul, H.M. Pinedo, Angiogenesis inhibitors: What is the clinical future?, in: P.L. Herrling, A. Matter, R.M. Schultz (Eds.), Advances in Targeted Cancer Therapy, Birkhäuser, Basel, 2005: pp. 67–91.

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, Scientists Create Biodegradable Computer Chips, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/biodegradable-computer-chips-step-closer/ (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, Trademark ADP System: Patent Office Should Analyze Alternatives Before Contract Award, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Knight, Technological Advancement in Conflict Assessment: A Case Study of the Fund for Peace’s Universal Network of Local Knowledge in Liberia, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 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

[1]

B. Rothenberg, An Electronic Set of Eyes to Feed Data to Players and Coaches, New York Times (2016) SP8.

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