How to format your references using the Organometallics citation style

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

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Macilwain, C. What Matters for Science Is Who Runs the Country. Nature 2012, 488 (7413), 559.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Hemberger, M.; Pedersen, R. Stem Cells. Epigenome Disruptors. Science 2010, 330 (6004), 598–599.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Smolin, J. A.; Smith, G.; Vargo, A. Oversimplifying Quantum Factoring. Nature 2013, 499 (7457), 163–165.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Kao, H.; Shan, S.-J.; Dragert, H.; Rogers, G.; Cassidy, J. F.; Ramachandran, K. A Wide Depth Distribution of Seismic Tremors along the Northern Cascadia Margin. Nature 2005, 436 (7052), 841–844.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Kula, G.; Raab, M.; Stahn, S. Beyond Smart Beta; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2017.

An edited book

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Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph: 10th International Workshop, WAW 2013, Cambridge, MA, USA, December 14-15, 2013, Proceedings; Bonato, A., Mitzenmacher, M., Prałat, P., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2013; Vol. 8305.

A chapter in an edited book

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de Wilde, J. J. F. E. Begoniaceae. In Flowering Plants. Eudicots: Sapindales, Cucurbitales, Myrtaceae; Kubitzki, K., Ed.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011; pp 56–71.

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 Organometallics.

Blog post

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Andrew, E. It’s Not Rocket Science: We Need A Better Way To Get To Space. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/it-s-not-rocket-science-we-need-better-way-get-space/ (accessed 2018-10-30).

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

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Government Accountability Office. School Nutrition: USDA Has Efforts Underway to Help Address Ongoing Challenges Implementing Changes in Nutrition Standards; GAO-15-656; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Serrano, M. Bilingual Sentiment Analysis of Spanglish Tweets. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, 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

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Vecsey, G. A Thick Résumé for a Tough Job. New York Times. July 30, 2011, p D6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Organometallics
Abbreviation	Organometallics
ISSN (print)	0276-7333
ISSN (online)	1520-6041
Scope	Inorganic Chemistry Organic Chemistry Physical and Theoretical Chemistry