How to format your references using the Oxford German Studies citation style

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

Cahn, R. W., ‘Genesis by Definition’, Nature, 410.6826 (2001), p. 307

A journal article with 2 authors

Heinrich, Andreas, and Sebastian Loth, ‘Physics. A Logical Use for Atoms’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 332.6033 (2011), pp. 1039–40

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, Christina W., Jim Ciston, and Matthew W. Kanan, ‘Electroreduction of Carbon Monoxide to Liquid Fuel on Oxide-Derived Nanocrystalline Copper’, Nature, 508.7497 (2014), pp. 504–7

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang, Zhaomin, John Turner, Bo Sun, Bingrui Li, and Chengyan Liu, ‘Cyclone-Induced Rapid Creation of Extreme Antarctic Sea Ice Conditions’, Scientific Reports, 4 (2014), p. 5317

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Connors, Laurence A., and Cesar Alvarez, How Markets Really Work (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012)

An edited book

Seidl, Martina, UML @ Classroom: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Modeling, ed. by Marion Scholz, Christian Huemer, and Gerti Kappel, Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science (Springer International Publishing, 2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Bain, Jonathan, ‘Relativity and Quantum Field Theory’, in Space, Time, and Spacetime: Physical and Philosophical Implications of Minkowski’s Unification of Space and Time, ed. by Vesselin Petkov (Springer, 2010), pp. 129–46

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 Oxford German Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise, ‘The Meat Served On The “Real” Paleo Diet’, IFLScience (IFLScience, 2015)

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

Government Accountability Office, Tribal Internet Access: Increased Federal Coordination and Performance Measurement Needed (U.S. Government Printing Office, 27 April 2016)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Barrie, Daniel Bennett, ‘On the Interaction of Wind Energy with Climate and Weather’ (unpublished Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2010)

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

Vecsey, George, ‘For Musial, A Birthday And A Medal’, New York Times, 21 November 2010, p. SP1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Oxford German Studies
Abbreviation	Oxf. Ger. Stud.
ISSN (print)	0078-7191
ISSN (online)	1745-9214
Scope	Language and Linguistics Literature and Literary Theory Linguistics and Language