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]

B. Dunn, Cancer: Solving an age-old problem, Nature 483 (2012) S2-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.N. Thomas, G.S. Dieckmann, Antarctic Sea ice--a habitat for extremophiles, Science 295 (2002) 641–644.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Betschinger, K. Mechtler, J.A. Knoblich, The Par complex directs asymmetric cell division by phosphorylating the cytoskeletal protein Lgl, Nature 422 (2003) 326–330.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R.S. Lakes, T. Lee, A. Bersie, Y.C. Wang, Extreme damping in composite materials with negative-stiffness inclusions, Nature 410 (2001) 565–567.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Y. Posudin, Methods of Measuring Environmental Parameters, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

O. Dunkelman, L. Keliher, eds., Selected Areas in Cryptography – SAC 2015: 22nd International Conference, Sackville, NB, Canada, August 12–14, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E.E. Vidal, J.A. Yurko, K. Smith, Modern Beryllium Extraction: A State-of-the-Art Kroll Reduction Plant, in: N.R. Neelameggham, S. Alam, H. Oosterhof, A. Jha, D. Dreisinger, S. Wang (Eds.), Rare Metal Technology 2015, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 27–36.

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]

J. Davis, Monkey Muggers Steal Tourists’ Belongings, Holding Them For Ransom In Exchange For Food, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/monkey-muggers-steal-tourists-belongings-holding-them-for-ransom-in-exchange-for-food/ (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, Student Testing: Current Extent and Expenditures, With Cost Estimates for a National Examination, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.L. Biermann, The distribution of Callinectes sapidus megalopae at the mouths of Chesapeake and Delaware Bays: Implications for larval ingress, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 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]

B. Brantley, J. Green, A. Soloski, Too Soon? Or Right on Cue?, New York Times (2017) AR1.

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