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

Schönenberger C. Physics. Two indistinguishable electrons interfere in an electronic device. Science. 2013;339:1041–1042.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zavaleta ES, Hulvey KB. Realistic species losses disproportionately reduce grassland resistance to biological invaders. Science. 2004;306:1175–1177.

A journal article with 3 authors

Williamson CE, Saros JE, Schindler DW. Climate change. Sentinels of change. Science. 2009;323:887–888.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Liao T, Sun Z, Sun C, Dou SX, Searles DJ. Electronic coupling and catalytic effect on H2 evolution of MoS2/graphene nanocatalyst. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:6256.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fickelscherer RJ, Chester DL. Optimal Automated Process Fault Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Interactive Systems. Design, Specification, and Verification: 15th International Workshop, DSV-IS 2008 Kingston, Canada, July 16-18, 2008 Revised Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.5136.

A chapter in an edited book

Wiercigroch M, Pavlovskaia E. Engineering Applications of Non-smooth Dynamics. In: Warminski J, Lenci S, Cartmell MP, Rega G, Wiercigroch M, eds. Nonlinear Dynamic Phenomena in Mechanics. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012:211–273.

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. Five Ways To Reboot Your Brain This Summer. IFLScience. 2016; Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/five-ways-to-reboot-your-brain-this-summer/. 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. Transportation Trust Funds. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jaime AA. “Cockroach centuries”: The cockroach image as the conduit for the marginalized beat woman and artist in Elise Cowen’s cockroach poetry. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Loomis G. Bringing Fresh Interpretations to Vintage Verdi and Handel. New York Times. 2013;0.

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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