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]

J.F. Dovidio, Psychology. Racial bias, unspoken but heard, Science. 326 (2009) 1641–1642.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.B. Berkman, E. Plutzer, Science education. Defeating creationism in the courtroom, but not in the classroom, Science. 331 (2011) 404–405.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.M. Law, R.J. Matear, R.J. Francey, Comment on “Saturation of the southern ocean CO2 sink due to recent climate change,” Science. 319 (2008) 570; author reply 570.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

F.C. Minozzo, B.M. Baroni, J.A. Correa, M.A. Vaz, D.E. Rassier, Force produced after stretch in sarcomeres and half-sarcomeres isolated from skeletal muscles, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2320.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Wartewig, IR and Raman Spectroscopy, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

M. Hogeling, ed., Case-Based Inpatient Pediatric Dermatology, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C.K. Tong, Feuds and Legacies: Conflict and Inheritance in Chinese Family Business, in: C.-K. Tong (Ed.), Chinese Business: Rethinking Guanxi and Trust in Chinese Business Networks, Springer, Singapore, 2014: pp. 77–95.

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]

S. Luntz, New Evidence Plants Can “Think” And Make Decisions Based On Possible Future Risks, IFLScience. (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-evidence-plants-can-think-and-make-decisions-based-possible-future-risks/ (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, An Approach to the Audit of Research and Development Activities, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1969.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.C. Gifford, (Re)making men, representing the Caribbean nation: Authorial individuation in works by Fred D’aguiar, Robert Antoni, and Marlon James, Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, 2013.

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.G. Gustines, A Comics Confab That Never Ends, New York Times. (2016) F30.

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
Scope

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