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

Huntington HP. Arctic science: The local perspective. Nature. 2011;478:182–183.

A journal article with 2 authors

Szell M, Thurner S. How women organize social networks different from men. Sci. Rep. 2013;3:1214.

A journal article with 3 authors

Regenauer-Lieb K, Yuen DA, Branlund J. The initiation of subduction: criticality by addition of water? Science. 2001;294:578–580.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Soma M, Fujihara Y, Okabe M, Ishino F, Kobayashi S. Ftx is dispensable for imprinted X-chromosome inactivation in preimplantation mouse embryos. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:5181.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chase CW Jr. Demand-Driven Forecasting. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Large-Scale Studies in Mathematics Education. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Samaka M, Ally M. Model for Transforming Engineering Education Using Technology-Enhanced Learning. In: Abdulwahed M, Hasna MO, Froyd JE, eds. Advances in Engineering Education in the Middle East and North Africa: Current Status, and Future Insights. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016:117–138.

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

Luntz S. How Bacteria Make Ice. IFLScience. 2016; Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-ice-making-bacteria-do-there-work/. 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. Problems in Providing Education Overseas for Dependents of U.S. Personnel. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hebel O. Parental involvement in the individual educational program for Israeli students with disabilities. Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix; 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

Feeney K. Croissants and Buttery Bliss. New York Times. 2009;NJ12.

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
Scope