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

Agarwal, V. K., ‘“Diamond Ceiling” for Asian Americans’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 290.5499 (2000), p. 2075a

A journal article with 2 authors

Wilson, Timothy J., and David M. J. Lilley, ‘Biochemistry. The Evolution of Ribozyme Chemistry’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 323.5920 (2009), pp. 1436–38

A journal article with 3 authors

Sakakura, Akira, Atsushi Ukai, and Kazuaki Ishihara, ‘Enantioselective Halocyclization of Polyprenoids Induced by Nucleophilic Phosphoramidites’, Nature, 445.7130 (2007), pp. 900–903

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Covert, Markus W., Eric M. Knight, Jennifer L. Reed, Markus J. Herrgard, and Bernhard O. Palsson, ‘Integrating High-Throughput and Computational Data Elucidates Bacterial Networks’, Nature, 429.6987 (2004), pp. 92–96

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Butler, Kirt C., Multinational Finance (John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2016)

An edited book

Cleophas, Ton J., SPSS for Starters: SPSS for Starters, ed. by Aeilko H. Zwinderman (Springer Netherlands, 2010)

A chapter in an edited book

AbuRahma, Ali F., ‘Overview of Various Noninvasive Cerebrovascular Techniques’, in Noninvasive Vascular Diagnosis: A Practical Guide to Therapy, ed. by Ali F. AbuRahma and John J. Bergan (Springer, 2007), pp. 50–59

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

Hale, Tom, ‘Stunning Footage Of Three Whales “Dancing” Around A Boat’, IFLScience (IFLScience, 2016)

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, Underinflated Tires in the United States (U.S. Government Printing Office, 9 February 2007)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lee, Soo Bum, ‘Localizing the Effects of Link Flooding Attacks in the Internet’ (unpublished 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

Greenhouse, Linda, ‘Court to Hear Challenge From Muslims Held After 9/11’, New York Times, 17 June 2008, p. A16

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