How to format your references using the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 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]

R. Deech, 30 years: from IVF to stem cells, Nature 454 (2008) 280–281.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.A. Rohde, R.A. Muller, Cycles in fossil diversity, Nature 434 (2005) 208–210.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Jiang, L. Zhao, D.E. Clapham, Genome-wide RNAi screen identifies Letm1 as a mitochondrial Ca2+/H+ antiporter, Science 326 (2009) 144–147.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Schwoerer, S. Pfotenhauer, O. Jäckel, K.-U. Amthor, B. Liesfeld, W. Ziegler, R. Sauerbrey, K.W.D. Ledingham, T. Esirkepov, Laser-plasma acceleration of quasi-monoenergetic protons from microstructured targets, Nature 439 (2006) 445–448.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Verdu, Oxidative Ageing of Polymers, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

J.A. Ball, Y. Eidelman, J.W. Helton, V. Olshevsky, J. Rovnyak, eds., Recent Advances in Matrix and Operator Theory, Birkhäuser, Basel, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Fischer, Pear Breeding, in: P.M. Priyadarshan, S.M. Jain (Eds.), Breeding Plantation Tree Crops: Temperate Species, Springer, New York, NY, 2009: pp. 135–160.

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 Journal of Organometallic Chemistry.

Blog post

[1]

C. Carpineti, Scientists Attached A Camera To A Whale, And The Footage Is Truly Spectacular, IFLScience (2017).

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, Screening Partnership Program: TSA Has Improved Application Guidance and Monitoring of Screener Performance, and Continues to Improve Cost Comparison Methods, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.C. Quintero, Constructing a Clinical Research Data Management System, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 2017.

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.K. (nyt), World Briefing | Europe: Ukraine: Air-Show Officials Face Trial, New York Times (2002) A6.

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	Journal of Organometallic Chemistry
Abbreviation	J. Organomet. Chem.
ISSN (print)	0022-328X
Scope	Biochemistry Inorganic Chemistry Organic Chemistry Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Materials Chemistry