How to format your references using the Current Opinion in Electrochemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Opinion in Electrochemistry. 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

[1]

P.F. Leadlay, Structural biology: enzyme assembly line pictured, Nature 510 (2014) 482–483.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H.K.J. Pessa, M.J. Frilander, Genetics. Minor splicing, disrupted, Science 332 (2011) 184–185.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P. Béarez, T.J. DeVries, L. Ortlieb, Comment on “Otolith delta18O record of mid-Holocene sea surface temperatures in Peru,” Science 299 (2003) 203; author reply 203.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.M. Sunshine, T.L. Farnham, L.M. Feaga, O. Groussin, F. Merlin, R.E. Milliken, M.F. A’Hearn, Temporal and spatial variability of lunar hydration as observed by the Deep Impact spacecraft, Science 326 (2009) 565–568.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P.V. Lade, Triaxial Testing of Soils, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

H. Comon-Lundh, C. Kirchner, H. Kirchner, eds., Rewriting, Computation and Proof: Essays Dedicated to Jean-Pierre Jouannaud on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A.A. Ageev, A 3/2-Approximation for the Proportionate Two-Machine Flow Shop Scheduling with Minimum Delays, in: C. Kaklamanis, M. Skutella (Eds.), Approximation and Online Algorithms: 5th International Workshop, WAOA 2007, Eilat, Israel, October 11-12, 2007. Revised Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 55–66.

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 Current Opinion in Electrochemistry.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Discovery Of New Biomarkers Could Lead To Earlier Detection Of Pancreatic Cancer, 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, Medical ADP Systems: Composite Health Care System Is Not Ready to Be Deployed, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

N. Pesochinsky, Effect of Refractive Vision Correction of Myopia and Hyperopia Through Laser Surgery (LASIK & PRK) on Symptoms of Depression, Stress Perception and Self-esteem in Adults (22-55), Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2019.

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]

S. Kelly, What Did You Expect, the Spanish Inquisition?, New York Times (1999) 75.

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	Current Opinion in Electrochemistry
Abbreviation	Curr. Opin. Electrochem.
ISSN (print)	2451-9103
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