How to format your references using the Oxidation of Metals citation style

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

Zhang T. ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS. More efficient together. Science. 2015;350:738–739.

A journal article with 2 authors

Breidenbach MA, Brunger AT. Substrate recognition strategy for botulinum neurotoxin serotype A. Nature. 2004;432:925–929.

A journal article with 3 authors

van Polanen V, Bergmann Tiest WM, Kappers AML. Target contact and exploration strategies in haptic search. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:6254.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhong J, Liu W, Kong L, Morais PC. A new approach for highly accurate, remote temperature probing using magnetic nanoparticles. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:6338.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sewell G. Computational Methods of Linear Algebra. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Antarctica: Contributions to Global Earth Sciences. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Sirenko K, Sirenko Y. The Exact Absorbing Conditions Method in the Analysis of Open Electrodynamic Structures. In: Sirenko Y, Velychko L, eds. Electromagnetic Waves in Complex Systems: Selected Theoretical and Applied Problems. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016:225–326.

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 Oxidation of Metals.

Blog post

Andrew D. Driverless Cars Should Sacrifice Their Passengers For The Greater Good – Just Not When I’m The Passenger. IFLScience. 2016; Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/driverless-cars-should-sacrifice-their-passengers-for-the-greater-good-just-not-when-im-the-passenger/. 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

Government Accountability Office. Aviation Safety: Status of Recommendations to Improve FAA’s Certification and Approval Processes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chun AR. Physiological, Ultrastructure, and Preliminary Genomic Characterization of the Marine Protist Thraustochytrium sp. LLF1b (class Labyrinthulomycetes). La Jolla, CA: University of California San Diego; 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

Dynarski S. 왜 영재반에서는 흑인과 히스패닉 학생을 보기 힘들까? New York Times. 2016;BU6.

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	Oxidation of Metals
ISSN (print)	0030-770X
ISSN (online)	1573-4889
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