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

Burns JA. Solar system: Ring in the new. Nature. 2014;508:48–49.

A journal article with 2 authors

Levine BL, June CH. Perspective: assembly line immunotherapy. Nature. 2013;498:S17.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dickinson DJ, Nelson WJ, Weis WI. A polarized epithelium organized by beta- and alpha-catenin predates cadherin and metazoan origins. Science. 2011;331:1336–1339.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Corma A, Díaz-Cabañas MJ, Jordá JL, Martínez C, Moliner M. High-throughput synthesis and catalytic properties of a molecular sieve with 18- and 10-member rings. Nature. 2006;443:842–845.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Southard TE, Marshall SD, Bonner LL. Orthodontics in the Vertical Dimension. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

Mathematical Progress in Expressive Image Synthesis II: Extended and Selected Results from the Symposium MEIS2014. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2015.18.

A chapter in an edited book

McNall SG. What Have Eggs Got to Do with Inequality? In: Machin A, Stehr N, eds. Understanding Inequality: Social Costs and Benefits. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden; 2016:79–100.

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

O`Callaghan J. Astronomers Spot Black Hole So big, It Defies Current Theories Of Galaxy Evolution. IFLScience. 2015; Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/black-hole-grew-too-fast-could-rewrite-theories-galaxy-formation/. 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. Information Technology: Leveraging Best Practices and Reform Initiatives Can Help Agencies Better Manage Investments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Radcliffe ML. Random Graphs with Attribute Affinity. La Jolla, CA: University of California San Diego; 2012.

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

Sisario B. Beyoncé, With 9 Grammy Nods, Will Face Off Against Adele. New York Times. 2016;C1.

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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