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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Rummel, J. D. Survival on the Edge: The Tube Worm’s Strategy. Nature 2000, 407 (6805), 671.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Kerrick, D. M.; Connolly, J. A. Metamorphic Devolatilization of Subducted Marine Sediments and the Transport of Volatiles into the Earth’s Mantle. Nature 2001, 411 (6835), 293–296.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Buckling, A.; Wills, M. A.; Colegrave, N. Adaptation Limits Diversification of Experimental Bacterial Populations. Science 2003, 302 (5653), 2107–2109.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Han, Y.; Li, S.; Cao, X.; Yuan, L.; Wang, Y.; Yin, Y.; Qiu, T.; Dai, H.; Wang, X. Different Inhibitory Effect and Mechanism of Hydroxyapatite Nanoparticles on Normal Cells and Cancer Cells in Vitro and in Vivo. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 7134.

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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Westermeier, R. Electrophoresis in Practice; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, FRG, 2004.

An edited book

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SOFSEM 2009: Theory and Practice of Computer Science: 35th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Špindlerův Mlýn, Czech Republic, January 24-30, 2009. Proceedings; Nielsen, M., Kučera, A., Miltersen, P. B., Palamidessi, C., Tůma, P., Valencia, F., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; Vol. 5404.

A chapter in an edited book

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Kemp, A.; Maguire, S.; Davis, P. Physical Child Abuse. In Clinical Forensic Medicine: A Physician’s Guide; Stark, M. M., Ed.; Humana Press: Totowa, NJ, 2011; pp 169–202.

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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Luntz, S. Re-Examination Of Old Notebooks Reveals Powerful Mathematics. IFLScience.

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. Marine Transportation: Federal Financing and a Framework for Infrastructure Investments; GAO-02-1033; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2002.

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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Desai, S. S. CFD Simuation of Flow Past a Rotating Circular Cylinder with an End Plate. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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

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Kishkovsky, S. Georgian Church Envoys Meet With Russian Official. New York Times. November 8, 2008, p A11.

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